{"id":3446,"date":"2012-05-24T14:12:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T19:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3446"},"modified":"2012-05-24T14:12:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T19:12:57","slug":"giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3446","title":{"rendered":"GIVING THANKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xk1S04JnRq8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If ever there was an example of how connected we are in the world, not since <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chernobyl_disaster\">Chernobyl<\/a>\u00a0have consequences beyond one&#8217;s control have had such an impact. The debris field resulting from the \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/rundown\/2012\/03\/tracking-japans-tsunami-debris.html\">tsunami<\/a> in Japan heading across the Pacific Ocean towards our west coast. No one wants to talk a solution, if there is one,as it would likely be so costly it is difficult to discuss.<\/p>\n<p>On a much lighter note, Memorial Day weekend is almost here and that means the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stormtrysail.org\/Pages\/2012-BI-Race\/2012-BI-Race.html\">Block Island Race<\/a> for many. the weather should be very nice for those staying ashore and a puzzle for those of us racing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?attachment_id=3448\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3448\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3448\" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-05-24 at 3.10.59 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Screen-Shot-2012-05-24-at-3.10.59-PM.tiff\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If ever there was an example of how connected we are in the world, not since Chernobyl\u00a0have consequences beyond one&#8217;s control have had such an impact. The debris field resulting from the \u00a0tsunami in Japan heading across the Pacific Ocean towards our west coast. No one wants to talk a solution, if there is one,as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3446\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GIVING THANKS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,309],"tags":[701,2564,2514,2469],"class_list":["post-3446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-weather","tag-debris-field","tag-environment","tag-tsunami","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3450,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions\/3450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}