{"id":9403,"date":"2016-01-22T09:34:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T17:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=9403"},"modified":"2016-01-22T05:42:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T13:42:11","slug":"a-little-bit-o-everything-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2016\/01\/22\/a-little-bit-o-everything-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Bit o&#8217; Everything Nice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The water was too rough for snorkeling again yesterday, so Kalyan and I headed down to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rosewoodhotels.com\/en\/little-dix-bay-virgin-gorda\">Rockefeller&#8217;s posh resort<\/a> to check out the beach there.  After being told by security that we could access the public beach but &#8220;not use any of the amenities or interact with the guests&#8221; we hung out for a bit at Little Dix Bay.  It&#8217;s probably for the best that Audrey has cut me off from making any more wisecracks about the naming of that particular body of water.<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon I took the ferry to pick the girl up from the airport, and after our return we met up with everyone for dinner.  Banick had been on a boat trip during the day and invited a couple that was also on the trip to dinner, one of whom is a photographer who is pretty well-known for his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sethcasteel.com\/\">underwater dog photos<\/a>; it turns out that he lives about a mile from us in Venice, so we might have a new buddy to explore restaurants with when we get home.  As is typical with this group of friends, there was a lot of laughing throughout the night, but it ended with people literally crying as Banick recounted a night from his college year abroad in England when he was attacked by some hooligans outside of a bar &#8211; with everything from Ajay standing on a bench making kung-fu noises to Banick trying to &#8220;Hulkomania my shirt off&#8221; the story was definitely a throwback to all of our crazy nights sitting up yapping during college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The water was too rough for snorkeling again yesterday, so Kalyan and I headed down to the Rockefeller&#8217;s posh resort to check out the beach there. After being told by security that we could access the public beach but &#8220;not use any of the amenities or interact with the guests&#8221; we hung out for a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2016\/01\/22\/a-little-bit-o-everything-nice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Little Bit o&#8217; Everything Nice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-9403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-caribbean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9403"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9408,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403\/revisions\/9408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}