{"id":8640,"date":"2010-08-04T11:19:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T16:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=8640"},"modified":"2010-08-04T11:45:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T16:45:42","slug":"good-signs-and-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=8640","title":{"rendered":"C’est la vie"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent well over two weeks not thinking about the oil spill in the Gulf. I had left with all the hurricane preparedness I could muster from afar and decided to leave fate to the wind. Arriving home, I’ve noticed a dearth of headlines on the oil spill – almost subdued news. So I dug to find out what is up. I checked my friend’s blog<\/a> in Florida who is documenting goings on for posterity in fear the ocean and its inhabitants might suddenly disappear. I learned that she is retiring from her daily posts and will only post if and when something happens. I am due a debriefing from my neighbor who is a biologist and who is actively working on the containment of the oyster beds but don’t have his info yet – albeit if something was critical I would have come home to some news from him unsolicited. A recent Reuters posting<\/a> made it seem like the oil spill was over and the devastation was not as disastrous as we had believed.<\/p>\n

All in all, we are smack dab in the midst of hurricane season here in the Gulf. BP will remain the AntiChrist for many years to come. But today when I saw all the ibis hanging out in the moribund tree on the City Park lagoon island, I thought, hmmm, this too has passed.<\/p>\n

The one good sign about aging that I can tell you is this – you learn that things have a rhythm to them. When we were driving to Cadiz, I was sitting in back of our friend, Anna’s car, and had Tin in the Ergobaby because we didn’t have a carseat – I was entertaining him because he was tired of being strapped in and so we were playing UP and DOWN. After about seventy five ups and downs, I said, “Up and down. Asi es la vida, my boy.” And how true that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent well over two weeks not thinking about the oil spill in the Gulf. I had left with all the hurricane preparedness I could muster from afar and decided to leave fate to the wind. Arriving home, I’ve noticed a dearth of headlines on the oil spill – almost subdued news. So I dug to find out what is up. I checked my friend’s blog in Florida who is documenting goings on for posterity… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-2fm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8640"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8651,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions\/8651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}