{"id":11279,"date":"2026-03-02T07:59:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=9730"},"modified":"2026-03-02T07:59:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:59:42","slug":"sand-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/sand-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Sand Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have you ever known someone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">who performs a victory jig<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">after discovering a perfect sand dollar at low tide?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She once flew 3000 miles with LSD stashed in her ass<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">to cook me a special psychedelic lasagna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She once made me eleven mix tapes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and titled them <em>The Fuck Truck Series<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Polaroids included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She once cleared the house of my dead husky&#8217;s things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She once collaged a birthday card for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She once translated rain for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We once drove over a magisterial bridge on the Oregon Coast<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">singing Eddie Money&#8217;s \u201cTwo Tickets to Paradise.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She sauntered into my life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">wearing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a green negligee,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a purple choker,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and struck the rock<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">with her staff of mystery,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">whereby the water<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">of my creative mind<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">burst forth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I betrayed her,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">for a frivolous, dangerous ass<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I never touched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve stopped eating lasagna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and never listen to the mix tapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every time I discover a perfect sand dollar,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I pick it up,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">admire,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and leave it behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever known someone who performs a victory jig after discovering a perfect sand dollar at low tide? I have. She once flew 3000 miles with LSD stashed in her ass to cook me a special psychedelic lasagna. She once made me eleven mix tapes and titled them The Fuck Truck Series. Polaroids included. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-poetry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}