{"id":111,"date":"2011-09-02T07:13:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T15:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulkahl.com\/pkBlg\/?p=111"},"modified":"2011-09-02T07:13:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T15:13:23","slug":"its-the-final-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/paulkahl.com\/pkBlg\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the Final Countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s EOB (End of Business) will mark the start of a week&#8217;s vacation. The fam are loading up the truck and heading into the hills! Well &#8211; Heading to the ocean, actually. You know&#8230; The Big Blue Wet Thing.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is to stay at this nice little cottage by the shore, and forget the world exists beyond what we can see.<\/p>\n<p>Work? Ceased to be.<br \/>\nSeattle? A dark spot in the memory.<br \/>\nHighways? Where we&#8217;re going, we don&#8217;t need roads.<\/p>\n<p>There will be wifi, which is good &#8211; a week without internets could possibly kill us. We&#8217;d be found huddled in the corner, drooling and making &#8220;typing&#8221; motions with our twitching fingers, occasionally saying &#8220;El Oh El&#8221; and giggling.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m taking my camera bag, tripod, iPad, and Kindle, as well as two fold-&#8217;em-up chairs. We&#8217;re packing up the dogs, a pic-a-nic basket, a cooler, and enough clothes to be decent. Everything else is dead weight! Aside from food and necessities, that is.<\/p>\n<p>I am planning to try to take at least one good set of night shots. It should be interesting. I&#8217;ll most likely muck it up and wind up with a really great scenario in a really black picture. Too bad you can&#8217;t make prints of your memory.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be reading up on awesome things like &#8220;Taking great pictures at night&#8221; and &#8220;How to get a great shot of your dog&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Suggestions are welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s EOB (End of Business) will mark the start of a week&#8217;s vacation. The fam are loading up the truck and heading into the hills! Well &#8211; Heading to the ocean, actually. You know&#8230; The Big Blue Wet Thing. The &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/paulkahl.com\/pkBlg\/?p=111\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s the Final Countdown<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[42,41,81],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pics","tag-lincoln-city-oregon","tag-oregon-coast","tag-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulkahl.com\/pkBlg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulkahl.com\/pkBlg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulkahl.com\/pkBlg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulkahl.com\/pkBlg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulkahl.com\/pkBlg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/paulkahl.com\/pkBlg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulkahl.com\/pkBlg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulkahl.com\/pkBlg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulkahl.com\/pkBlg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}