{"id":4646,"date":"2012-10-31T08:22:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T13:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=4646"},"modified":"2012-10-31T08:22:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T13:22:19","slug":"feeling-thoreau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=4646","title":{"rendered":"FEELING LIKE THOREAU"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4646 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/newport-sandy-10-30-12-152089.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/newport-sandy-10-30-12-152089-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/newport-sandy-10-30-12-152089-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/newport-sandy-10-30-12-152089-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4647'>\n\t\t\t\tTHE MORNING AFTER\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/newport-sandy-10-30-12-152090.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/newport-sandy-10-30-12-152090-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/newport-sandy-10-30-12-152090-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/newport-sandy-10-30-12-152090-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4648'>\n\t\t\t\tBREAKING WAVES\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/newport-sandy-10-30-12-152096.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/newport-sandy-10-30-12-152096-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/newport-sandy-10-30-12-152096-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/newport-sandy-10-30-12-152096-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4649'>\n\t\t\t\tHIGH TIDE AT HARBOR COURT\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/newport-sandy-10-30-12-152100.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/newport-sandy-10-30-12-152100-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/newport-sandy-10-30-12-152100-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/newport-sandy-10-30-12-152100-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4650'>\n\t\t\t\tFALL COLORS\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The power is back on. I never thought I would miss electricity so much. We recently drove by Walden Pond. Thoreau&#8217;s closing words were :&#8221;I left for as good as reason as I came.&#8221; \u00a0Well I like the comforts of home as we say.<\/p>\n<p>Newport fared well, altogether. trees down, damage at beaches, lost electricity, but not everyone. We tried to drive around yesterday morning but the roads near any ocean views were still closed as the cleanup was in progress.<\/p>\n<p>Not even all the leaves were blown off the trees. We had several hours of hurricane winds but out of the north which kept the surge from being anything like it might have been. \u00a0I consider we were lucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The power is back on. I never thought I would miss electricity so much. We recently drove by Walden Pond. Thoreau&#8217;s closing words were :&#8221;I left for as good as reason as I came.&#8221; \u00a0Well I like the comforts of home as we say. Newport fared well, altogether. trees down, damage at beaches, lost electricity, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=4646\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FEELING LIKE THOREAU<\/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":[1482],"tags":[2606],"class_list":["post-4646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hurricane-sandy","tag-hurricane-sandy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646","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=4646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4652,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions\/4652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}