{"id":2983,"date":"2015-09-03T22:38:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T03:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewgreenlee.wordpress.com\/?p=2983"},"modified":"2015-09-03T22:38:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T03:38:37","slug":"well-thats-just-swell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/?p=2983","title":{"rendered":"Well That&#8217;s Just Swell!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ewgreenlee.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/tracy3.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2984\" src=\"https:\/\/ewgreenlee.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/tracy3.png?w=300&#038;resize=447%2C320\" alt=\"Tracy3\" width=\"447\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we took a little trip to photograph the swells and waves breaking near Kealia Beach outside of Kapaa, Kauai, Hawaii.\u00a0 The photos of me are absolutely fabulous, but the waves in the background do not do it justice.\u00a0 These waves were HUGE!!!\u00a0 Well, to me at least, a middle-aged chubby guy from west Texas who jumped on the curb to avoid being swept away from a rain (a word as unfamiliar to Hawaiians as snow) induced swell of six inches.\u00a0 So not one of my faithful readers (well, one that I know of) will ever believe they actually were HUGE until I found this video.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7-MUy_EBH8k&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]<\/p>\n<p>See, I told you they were HUGE!\u00a0 The majesty and power of these swells is generated from the winds of hurricane Ignacio which spared us his wrath.\u00a0 He might cross over the international dateline and become a trans tropical typhoon and be renamed &#8220;Wanton.&#8221;\u00a0 We are supposed to get more swells from hurricane Jemina later this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe soon I&#8217;ll challenge myself and venture into these waters and hang ten, or as many parts as I can, on a tree, in the mountains.\u00a0 The lovely Mrs. Greenlee will look at me and reply,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well that&#8217;s just swell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I know, I know, extra lame and greasy humor.\u00a0 What do you expect from a Haole?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we took a little trip to photograph the swells and waves breaking near Kealia Beach outside of Kapaa, Kauai, Hawaii.\u00a0 The photos of me are absolutely fabulous, but the waves in the background do not do it justice.\u00a0 These waves were HUGE!!!\u00a0 Well, to me at least, a middle-aged chubby guy from west Texas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[599,711,713,715,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-2983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-humor","7":"tag-hawaii","8":"tag-kapaa","9":"tag-kauai","10":"tag-kealia","11":"tag-surfing","12":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}