{"id":1016,"date":"2005-07-28T16:52:17","date_gmt":"2005-07-29T00:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/07\/28\/splish-splash\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:24:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:24:46","slug":"splish-splash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/07\/28\/splish-splash\/","title":{"rendered":"Splish Splash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went swimming today. Not in the gorgeous pool pictured below, mind you; that&#8217;s <em>one<\/em> of the Hearst Castle swimming pools &#8212; the Neptune Pool &#8212; and believe me, they keep an eagle eye on every tourist. No touching allowed. I hadn&#8217;t been swimming in years. Among the numerous pools in Santa Clara, the city boasts of an Olympic-size pool used for international competitions. It&#8217;s huge. It&#8217;s also quite popular from noon to 1 p.m. on weekdays, when the pool opens for adult lap swim. So I and about 100 others partook of the solar-warmed water. I swam slowly, amazed at how tired my muscles quickly became. It was lovely, though. I&#8217;d missed the silky feel of swimming. I swam one-third of a mile, too. Sleep shall court me tonight!<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/29335388\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos22.flickr.com\/29335388_c88a0e84d3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"hearst castle pool outside\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went swimming today. Not in the gorgeous pool pictured below, mind you; that&#8217;s one of the Hearst Castle swimming pools &#8212; the Neptune Pool &#8212; and believe me, they keep an eagle eye on every tourist. No touching allowed. I hadn&#8217;t been swimming in years. Among the numerous pools in Santa Clara, the city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10879,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/10879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}