{"id":3471,"date":"2017-12-16T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=3471"},"modified":"2017-12-16T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T16:30:00","slug":"lines-composed-eating-breakfast-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/lines-composed-eating-breakfast-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Lines Composed While Eating Breakfast at the Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read somewhere that in the very near future the ocean will contain more plastic than plankton. After I read this, I was reminded of the plot of Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s novel <i>Galapagos<\/i>: one day humanity wakes up and finds all men have gone sterile. Extinction looms. It would make a great new Hulu show and of course, gradually cause sterility in those men who are watching it, which could be part of the show.<\/p>\n<p>I continue to place faith in face-to-face encounters to aid me in my transition.<\/p>\n<p>Rilke matters to me more than ever. I am glad it matters to someone else, too.<\/p>\n<p>My breakfast consists of: two hard boiled eggs, coffee, apple, cheese, purple cabbage.<\/p>\n<p>I think more and more people are recognizing the social disease of social media. Thankfully, I am cured of it.<\/p>\n<p>Otters are on my mind.<\/p>\n<p>I see relay tower and smoke from slash burning in the hills.<\/p>\n<p>I am well on my way of finding a new 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\/3<sup>rd<\/sup> person voice for an impending literary project.<\/p>\n<p>I feel fit in mind and body.<\/p>\n<p>I am sitting on a big regional cannabis industry story that if published, would cast highly unfavorable light on the industry.<\/p>\n<p>I recently had dinner with a couple at their home deep in the woods and overlooking the ocean and we plotted how to help save dogs.<\/p>\n<p>All I want for Christmas is 3-D topographical map of the PNW.<\/p>\n<p>I always write in this style when I take up pen and lined paper at the ocean. I think it is because of the meter of the waves.<\/p>\n<p>There is no around me for miles.<\/p>\n<p><i>(If you found this post enjoyable, thought provoking or enlightening, please consider supporting a writer at work by making a financial contribution to this blog or by purchasing an NSP book.) <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read somewhere that in the very near future the ocean will contain more plastic than plankton. After I read this, I was reminded of the plot of Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s novel Galapagos: one day humanity wakes up and finds all men have gone sterile. Extinction looms. It would make a great new Hulu show and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[96,511,13],"class_list":["post-3471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","tag-ocean","tag-ocean-writing","tag-oregon-coast","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3473,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions\/3473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}