{"id":2678,"date":"2017-06-05T22:20:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T05:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/?p=2678"},"modified":"2017-06-05T22:20:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T05:20:39","slug":"listening-to-the-froggies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/listening-to-the-froggies\/","title":{"rendered":"listening to the froggies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two memories:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Freshman year, on a dorm camping trip near the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cuyamaca_Mountains\">Cuyamaca Mountains<\/a>. My roommate Ryan Petroff and I sneak off in the moonlight to lollygag around the forest. He grew up in the mountains in Alabama, so I just followed him around and trusted his intuition. &#8220;Listen,&#8221; he said. We stood near a pond and eavesdropped on the frogs&#8217; conversation, before returning to whatever it is that 18-year-old lads worry about. Perhaps the young frogs were discussing the same things.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>2. My last year in San Diego, near <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Torrey_Pines_Gliderport\">Glider Port<\/a> where the cliffs are giant, the sunset views are spectacular (and the parking is free). Sometimes Colleen would give me a ride there after work. If there was rain the day before, she&#8217;d make it a point to stop the car and roll down the windows. &#8220;Listen,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2678-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Frogs-Valentines-Day.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Frogs-Valentines-Day.m4a\">http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Frogs-Valentines-Day.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, now I make it a point to listen\u00a0to the frogs wherever I go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two memories: Freshman year, on a dorm camping trip near the Cuyamaca Mountains. My roommate Ryan Petroff and I sneak off in the moonlight to lollygag around the forest. He grew up in the mountains in Alabama, so I just followed him around and trusted his intuition. &#8220;Listen,&#8221; he said. We stood near a pond &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/listening-to-the-froggies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;listening to the froggies&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-Hc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678","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=2678"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2897,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678\/revisions\/2897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}