{"id":16949,"date":"2019-05-05T15:32:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T19:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=16949"},"modified":"2019-05-11T20:30:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T00:30:06","slug":"picnic-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=16949","title":{"rendered":"Picnic On The Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16951\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190505_164828.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16951\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190505_164828-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Picnic On The Beach, Gloucester, Massachusetts\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16951\" data-wp-pid=\"16951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190505_164828-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190505_164828-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190505_164828-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190505_164828-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190505_164828-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190505_164828.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picnic On The Beach, Gloucester, Massachusetts<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After church this morning, we met up with a friend of Margaret&#8217;s and they went off together to visit. The rest of us went for a picnic on the beach. It wasn&#8217;t particularly warm and the sky was overcast but it was nice to be outdoors. We put a blanket down on the sand and made sandwiches (because on the beach, you can eat the sandwiches there). The herring gulls (<em>Larus argentatus<\/em>) were all around and hoping for any food that might come there way. I&#8217;m afraid they didn&#8217;t get much from us.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16953\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190505_164859.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16953\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190505_164859-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Boston from Gloucester\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16953\" data-wp-pid=\"16953\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190505_164859-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190505_164859-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190505_164859-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190505_164859-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190505_164859-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190505_164859.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boston from Gloucester<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As we drove back we stopped at Niles Beach. From there we could see Boston, just over 25 miles to the southwest. I like the atmospheric quality of this photo so thought I&#8217;d include it along with the picture above of our picnic. I also like the not quite parallel lines of waves gently rolling in and changing with the subtly changing light.<\/p>\n<p>After our outing, we visited with some friends in the area and then in the evening went to the penultimate Catacombs of Dorothy&#8217;s college career. It was a really nice time and a nice way to end the weekend visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After church this morning, we met up with a friend of Margaret&#8217;s and they went off together to visit. The rest of us went for a picnic on the beach. It wasn&#8217;t particularly warm and the sky was overcast but it was nice to be outdoors. We put a blanket down on the sand and &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=16949\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[157,171,343,394,811,1686,1685,1684,340,407,23,1173],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16949"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16957,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949\/revisions\/16957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}