{"id":2707,"date":"2008-01-26T16:05:51","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T20:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2008-01-26T16:08:17","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T20:08:17","slug":"the-real-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2008\/01\/26\/the-real-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/sunrise_ogunquit.jpg\" title=\"sunrise_ogunquit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/sunrise_ogunquit.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"sunrise_ogunquit.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometime last week, maybe Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Karen, how would you like to watch the sunrise with me? It&#8217;s winter and we won&#8217;t have to get up before 5.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don&#8217;t think so. But if you want you can come to my house. We can see the sun through the bathroom window.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I&#8217;m not talking about a fake-ass sunrise. I mean the real thing. Over the ocean, like Halibut Point.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until she laughed at me that I realized not everyone believes as I do. And, I have a feeling rakkity might be the first to start a pummelin&#8217;. Sun rising over trees?  So what.  In a canyon? Great light but I need to see the fiery orb lift off from the water.  I guess a desert sunrise would qualify.<\/p>\n<p>I awoke too late last week and besides it was cloudy. This morning my iPhone rang at 6:35 but I was already in the shower.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I have to confess that fake-ass sunrises can be warm ones, and that&#8217;s a good thing, because standing on the beach facing a stiff wind forced me back into my truck.  Still, I got some <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/blog_photos\/ogunquit_sunrise\/album\/\" title=\"Ogunquit Sunrise\" target=\"_blank\">good shots<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t done a sunrise in a long time and after I uploaded my photos I realized that a. I shoulda brought my tripod, and  b. I shoulda settled on focal length and exposure time. If I had I would&#8217;ve captured a nice non-jumpy slideshow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime last week, maybe Saturday. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Karen, how would you like to watch the sunrise with me? It&#8217;s winter and we won&#8217;t have to get up before 5.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don&#8217;t think so. But if you want you can come to my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2008\/01\/26\/the-real-thing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}