{"id":337,"date":"2018-11-07T10:14:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T10:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/histories.com\/wp\/?p=337"},"modified":"2018-11-07T17:30:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T17:30:09","slug":"viva-la-vida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histories.com\/wp\/2018\/11\/07\/viva-la-vida\/","title":{"rendered":"Viva La Vida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I swam 500 meters again this morning courtesy of the excellent community pool. Monday I also swam. Today was better.\u00a0 A bit later in the morning and less crowded. Did my laps in 25 minutes and then sat in the sauna. It&#8217;s not hot enough but still felt great.<\/p>\n<p>Walked home in the brilliant sunshine. It had rained overnight so the streets and sidewalks were wet.\u00a0 It was like being on a set. Everything was ready to shoot. Bring in the extras. Bring in the actors. A couple of moms pushing strollers and an old woman using her walker shared the set with me. It&#8217;s magical here whenever the sun shines.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_307\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-307\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-307\" src=\"https:\/\/histories.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/RMG7976-1-700x1049.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"1049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/histories.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/RMG7976-1-700x1049.jpg 700w, https:\/\/histories.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/RMG7976-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/histories.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/RMG7976-1-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/histories.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/RMG7976-1.jpg 1326w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">view from my balcony today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Democrats won enough seats last night to take control of the House in January. Didn&#8217;t fare well in the Senate.\u00a0 Anyway, let&#8217;s hope they use their position wisely to provide what has been sorely lacking &#8211; Congress as an equal branch of government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I swam 500 meters again this morning courtesy of the excellent community pool. Monday I also swam. Today was better.\u00a0 A bit later in the morning and less crowded. Did my laps in 25 minutes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beginnings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histories.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/histories.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/histories.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histories.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histories.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/histories.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/histories.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histories.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histories.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histories.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}