{"id":314,"date":"2018-08-30T16:54:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T20:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/?p=314"},"modified":"2018-10-08T19:36:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T23:36:46","slug":"6-mile-beach-run-august-30th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/2018\/08\/6-mile-beach-run-august-30th\/","title":{"rendered":"6 mile beach run (August 30th)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Publish date to match the day I ran (8\/30\/2018), but posted on 10\/7\/2018<\/em><\/p>\n

Wrightsville Beach is my ur-beach since we used to visit my grandparents here every summer. I got up early enough to park at the southern tip and run 3 miles up, past Johnny Mercer’s pier, and back down again, while the sun rose. I might have been motivated to get out to the beach that early anyway, but not to run so far.
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\nAt dawn the clouds look like solid dark objects; it’s only after the sun comes up that they resolve into their normal aspects.
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The coolest thing I noticed is that the dawn light appears to evaporate off the sand as the waves retreat, because the reflection in the thinnest edge of moisture vanishes.<\/p>\n

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The sand was covered in hieroglyphic crab clawmarks centered on their holes. Lots of plovers, sandpipers, and gulls, but I was disappointed that in the swash—the edge of the waves—there were none of the “sand fiddlers” (mole crabs, Emerita talpoida<\/em>) or “periwinkles” (coquina clams, Donax variabilis<\/em>) I loved to observe as a kid.<\/p>\n

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I ran back around the southern tip of the beach to the sound side, walking back to the car through the sea oats.
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Publish date to match the day I ran (8\/30\/2018), but posted on 10\/7\/2018 Wrightsville Beach is my ur-beach since we used to visit my grandparents here every summer. I got up early enough to park at the southern tip and run 3 miles up, past Johnny Mercer’s pier, and back down again, while the sun […]<\/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-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}