{"id":2338,"date":"2007-08-22T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2007\/08\/so-close-but-really-much-farther.html"},"modified":"2007-08-22T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T16:07:00","slug":"so-close-but-really-much-farther","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2007\/08\/so-close-but-really-much-farther\/","title":{"rendered":"So close, but really much farther"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wfyurasko\/1169949339\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1136\/1169949339_deb0e3518a.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"0208180063\" \/><\/a><br \/><b>STONE HARBOR, N.J.&#8211;<\/b> The &#8220;socially sanctioned form of adult play&#8221; that is reading <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The Times<\/span> is something I don&#8217;t have time for in my daily life, so getting to do so is one of the highlights of vacation . I know I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/dl004d.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/all-news-thats-fit-to-print.html\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">not the only one<\/span><\/a> who feels this way.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I was in luck when I saw a <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Times<\/span> box directly across Third Ave. from our condo. Alas, I was not since the box was jammed and the paper couldn&#8217;t be retrieved. I had to walk all the way to the Wawa at 95th Street, a 26 block roundtrip, to buy a paper because the Times is not that readily available in Stone Harbor like it is at resorts further north.<\/p>\n<p>There was an upside though, Gmaps Pedometer says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmap-pedometer.com\/?r=1244221\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">I walked approximately 1.45 miles<\/span><\/a> every time I got the paper; seven miles I probably wouldn&#8217;t have walked otherwise over the course of the week.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/website_3c1e0e40\/graphics\/technorati.gif\" border=\"0\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/NewYorkTimes\" rel=\"tag\">New York Times<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/StoneHarbor\" rel=\"tag\">Stone Harbor<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/NJ\" rel=\"tag\">NJ<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/JerseyShore\" rel=\"tag\">Jersey Shore<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">&copy;MMX William F. Yurasko<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STONE HARBOR, N.J.&#8211; The &#8220;socially sanctioned form of adult play&#8221; that is reading The Times is something I don&#8217;t have time for in my daily life, so getting to do so is one of the highlights of vacation . I know I&#8217;m not the only one who feels this way. 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