{"id":425,"date":"2004-03-30T19:39:04","date_gmt":"2004-03-30T19:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=425"},"modified":"2004-03-30T19:39:04","modified_gmt":"2004-03-30T19:39:04","slug":"well_im_back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"Well, I&#8217;m Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And I&#8217;m disoriented as hell.  My six days in Miami already are beginning to feel like an extended dream.  If I didn&#8217;t have the pictures to prove I was there, I&#8217;d wake up tomorrow and wonder if I had ever really left.  But I suppose I do also have the sunburn as further evidence.  How the hell did I burn my eyelids and my lips, but nothing else?  I&#8217;ve also resolved to learn Spanish.  It can&#8217;t be that much different than French, which came relatively easily to me.  I&#8217;ll start posting some of the photos later tonight.  But here are a few things I&#8217;ll remember from my trip:<br \/>\nEating lunch at a seaside restaurant on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fla-keys.com\/islamorada\/index.htm\">Islamorada<\/a> in the Florida Keys<br \/>\nSipping hot, sweet cafe cubano at a little bakery on Calle Ocho<br \/>\nDipping my feet in the Atlantic Ocean<br \/>\nTalking to two very animated African-American women on the front porch of my hotel until 2 in the morning<br \/>\nSitting on a beach chair and feeling sand under my fingertips<br \/>\nSpending way too much money on a Versace shirt<br \/>\nEating dinner with my new friend Elizabeth (I&#8217;ll explain this one in more detail later)<br \/>\nGazing at the streaks of neon scattered across the streets of South Beach from my hotel roof.<br \/>\nSo, did y&#8217;all miss me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I&#8217;m disoriented as hell. My six days in Miami already are beginning to feel like an extended dream. If I didn&#8217;t have the pictures to prove I was there, I&#8217;d wake up tomorrow and wonder if I had ever really left. But I suppose I do also have the sunburn as further evidence. How <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=425' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-6R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}