{"id":291,"date":"2014-07-02T19:22:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T09:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lairds.ca\/?p=291"},"modified":"2014-07-02T19:22:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T09:22:52","slug":"in-love-with-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lairds.ca\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"In Love With The Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_293\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-293\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lairds.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSC00134.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-293\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lairds.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSC00134-300x112.jpg\" alt=\"Playing at the Beach!\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lairds.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSC00134-300x112.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lairds.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSC00134-500x187.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.lairds.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSC00134.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Playing at the Beach!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With Mykee busy at the Hillsong Conference all week, we made our way back to the beach yesterday to spend a few nights at a backpacker\u2019s hostel on the beach. \u00a0The weather isn\u2019t hot by any means (a high of 17C with a steady ocean breeze and nights down to 7C) but we are just sitting, reading and relaxing by the beach with the sun in our face. \u00a0(and while Jamie read, I found some time to play in the sand with my GI Joe!).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_292\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-292\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lairds.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSC00141.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-292 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lairds.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSC00141-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Just relaxing!\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just relaxing!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today we watched the surfers brave the waves and cold water when suddenly we noticed a helicopter circling.\u00a0 Hhmmm\u2026. Could there be a shark??\u00a0 When we got back to the hostel, we inquired of the helicopter and were informed that while surfing, a surfer fell and hit his head on the rocks.\u00a0 They were looking for his body.\u00a0 This is a subtle reminder of the power of the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>So we\u2019ll head back to Mykee\u2019s on Friday and then to the final Hillsong Conference session on Friday evening before drawing our time in Sydney to a close and heading north to Newcastle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Mykee busy at the Hillsong Conference all week, we made our way back to the beach yesterday to spend a few nights at a backpacker\u2019s hostel on the beach. \u00a0The weather isn\u2019t hot by any means (a high of 17C with a steady ocean breeze and nights down to 7C) but we are just &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lairds.ca\/?p=291\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In Love With The Beach&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lairds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lairds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lairds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lairds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lairds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lairds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/www.lairds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lairds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lairds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lairds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}