{"id":2048,"date":"2015-10-02T15:46:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T22:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2015-10-02T15:47:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T22:47:15","slug":"ill-go-into-the-ocean-if-you-go-into-the-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/ill-go-into-the-ocean-if-you-go-into-the-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"“I’ll go into the ocean if you go into the ocean”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The view from Blacks Beach at midnight, by the cliffs.\u00a0The lights in the distance are from downtown La Jolla.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hannah ran\u00a0in first. She would have done it regardless, but there’s something about the full moon or the beginning of the new school year that makes the students here feel more adventurous\u00a0— because if not now, then when? I don’t\u00a0think I would have jumped into the ocean at midnight on a regular day.<\/p>\n

If you’re going to jump into the salt water with your clothes on though, do be ready for all the chafing on your legs\u00a0as you go back up the hill. As you bear that soggy underwear and start to shiver from the cold, you may ask yourself: “Was it all worth it?”<\/p>\n

I think it was.<\/p>\n

(And it was definitely worth the cough I got soon afterward).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hannah ran\u00a0in first. She would have done it regardless, but there’s something about the full moon or the beginning of the new school year that makes the students here feel more adventurous\u00a0— because if not now, then when? I don’t\u00a0think I would have jumped into the ocean at midnight on a regular day. If you’re … Continue reading ““I’ll go into the ocean if you go into the ocean””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,22,4,2],"tags":[80,79,81],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-misc","category-ucsd","category-writing","tag-adventure","tag-ocean","tag-soggy-underwear"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-x2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions\/2065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}