{"id":2645,"date":"2013-10-07T12:26:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T20:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2013-10-07T12:26:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T20:26:57","slug":"flashes-in-the-dark-at-sea-10052013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2645","title":{"rendered":"Flashes in the Dark \u2013 At Sea \u2013 [10\/05\/2013]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>When BANG FLASH the lighting crashed<br \/>\nAnd well that\u2019s another story never mind\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Weather like this at home I\u2019d be sitting in a darkened house with my nose pressed to the glass, watching the waves crash over the fencing across the street and letting the lighting blind me. I\u2019m quite used to thunderstorms at home \u2013 but out here? Whole different story. For one thing the ship is bright and the world is dark, so the flashes outside seem to come from nowhere \u2013 and there isn\u2019t always thunder, but when it does come, it seems to shake the already rocking ship.<\/p>\n<p>Mother Nature is not happy out there this evening.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the kind of weather where you feel like you should be wrapped in a warm blanket with a cup of hot cocoa and a flashlight within reach.<\/p>\n<p>Though at least out here we don\u2019t have to worry about the power going out, I think we have back-up generators for our back-up generators!<\/p>\n<p>In here of course, we just continue on in our own little world, the guitarist plays, the drinks flow (though thank goodness happy hour is over) and I concentrate on trying to get over this darn cold that is playing havoc with my sinuses \u2013 silly air conditioning combined with so much front-line work with the passengers sometimes plays a bit of a nasty game with my immune system.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When BANG FLASH the lighting crashed And well that\u2019s another story never mind\u2026 Weather like this at home I\u2019d be sitting in a darkened house with my nose pressed to the glass, watching the waves crash over the fencing across &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2645\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-med-2013"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-GF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2646,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions\/2646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}