{"id":5019,"date":"2019-04-25T06:26:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T13:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=5019"},"modified":"2026-11-02T18:11:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:11:47","slug":"thoughts-at-the-jetty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/thoughts-at-the-jetty\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts at the Jetty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am playing ball with the dog as we ramble down the beach to the South Jetty.<\/p>\n<p>The clammers have returned and they are clamming away in a thin fog. The more toxic the clams, the less people here. The more toxic the world, the more people should be here.<\/p>\n<p>Great piles of kelp have washed ashore. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already found three choice cuts of beaverwood and I staked them up for our return. The Beaverwood just keeps coming my way. I find it where it used to never appear. Why is that? <\/p>\n<p>I reunited with my good friend Glen and met his fantastic new friend. We walked and talked down the beach as we played ball with the dog. Glen found a remarkable piece of beaverwood that looked like a sailboat. He said he&#8217;s going to make it into a sailboat. <\/p>\n<p>A bit of rain begins to fall. <\/p>\n<p>The dog is running with his usual insane pace. <\/p>\n<p>I can see the fort high up in the dunes. I liken this special fort as an outpost warning against a possible invading army of toxic thoughts.  <\/p>\n<p>I am writing a story in my mind as I walk and hurl the ball to the dog. It is a good way to write. <\/p>\n<p>Trucks past us. <\/p>\n<p>I look for the bald eagle that usually appears on this beach. Nothing. No birds at all. <\/p>\n<p>I have so much to do in the coming months. I am hoping I will become more viable as a person and writer if I can accomplish a few things. <\/p>\n<p>The Bonnie and Clyde book is printed. I pick it up in a few days. I would have loved to have read parts of it to Bonnie and Clyde at the river, but that&#8217;s not going to happen. <\/p>\n<p><!--themify_builder_static--><!--\/themify_builder_static--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am playing ball with the dog as we ramble down the beach to the South Jetty. The clammers have returned and they are clamming away in a thin fog. The more toxic the clams, the less people here. The more toxic the world, the more people should be here. Great piles of kelp have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[308,630,739,760,1082],"class_list":["post-5019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-oregon-beaches","tag-dogs","tag-matt-love","tag-oregon-beaches","tag-oregon-coast","tag-south-jetty","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\/5019","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=5019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10199,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019\/revisions\/10199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}