{"id":6008,"date":"2020-04-30T14:34:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T21:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6008"},"modified":"2020-04-30T14:34:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T21:34:42","slug":"roasting-cans-and-bottles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/roasting-cans-and-bottles\/","title":{"rendered":"Roasting Cans and Bottles"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p>One of the great vexing mysteries of Oregon Coast beach life is: why do some people who have beach fires roast up their empty cans and bottles of beer, liquor or energy drinks in the fire?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I encountered such a sight the other\nday on one of my meanderings. I saw a magnificent fort, went to\ninvestigate, ducked inside a real spacious beauty with a roof,\nwindows, and a sleeping\/make out\/pass out\/sex alcove, and found a\nfire pit with five or six roasted cans of beer. Why? Why? Why? It\nmakes no sense. I love that these people, most certainly locals, are\noutlaw partying in unique Oregon style on their socialist beaches in\nthe midst of a quarantine. But why burn up the cans and bottles?\nThere is certainly no aesthetic effect. It can&#8217;t smell good and\nactually ruins the soothing smell of wood smoke. Do they get some\nkind of weird kick from it? Is it fun? Is this primarily a dumb dude\nthing? What the hell is going on? \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great vexing mysteries of Oregon Coast beach life is: why do some people who have beach fires roast up their empty cans and bottles of beer, liquor or energy drinks in the fire? I encountered such a sight the other day on one of my meanderings. I saw a magnificent fort, went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,5,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-driftwood-forts","category-meditations","category-oregon-beaches","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\/6008","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=6008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6011,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6008\/revisions\/6011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}