{"id":2011,"date":"2007-08-15T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/15\/pensacola-pier-longest-and-friendliest-in-the-gulf\/"},"modified":"2007-08-15T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T04:00:00","slug":"pensacola-pier-longest-and-friendliest-in-the-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/15\/pensacola-pier-longest-and-friendliest-in-the-gulf\/","title":{"rendered":"Pensacola Pier: Longest ("and Friendliest") in the Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"

Really hopped up on drugs, I took on the Pensacola Pier. Initially, Paul wanted for us to go sailing (something he’s been wanting to do since forever), but the combination of low wind and my still pretty rough back ruled it out. Instead, we used the medicated afternoon (usually I just medicate mornings in order to handle kids and beach, but today was an exception) to use the kids’ naptime to explore.
\"\"<\/a>Pensacola Beach Pier is very long, almost 1500 feet. According to the sign, it’s the “longest and friendliest” in the Gulf. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We walked pretty slowly, so it took awhile. \"\"<\/a>
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\"\"<\/a>It is pretty long — you don’t realize how quickly you’ve gotten far away from the shoreline.
\"\"<\/a>The water is still quite clear: clear enough to see lots of fish… and jellyfish! Including several of the largest, most GI-NORMOUS jellyfish I’ve ever seen. Bigger around than a tire… HUGE… and terribly frightening. I didn’t take pictures of them and wish I had. They were unbelievable!
\"\"<\/a>A very, very, very pretty beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Really hopped up on drugs, I took on the Pensacola Pier. Initially, Paul wanted for us to go sailing (something he’s been wanting to do since forever), but the combination of low wind and my still pretty rough back ruled it out. Instead, we used the medicated afternoon (usually I just medicate mornings in order […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}