{"id":998,"date":"2017-07-14T08:33:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T15:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/?p=998"},"modified":"2017-07-14T08:33:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T15:33:02","slug":"on-the-first-week-of-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/?p=998","title":{"rendered":"On the First Week of retirement\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1026\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Moonstone3.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1026\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1026\" alt=\"Moonstone Beach, Cambria, extends for a mile. Most of it is rimmed by a boardwalk.\" src=\"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Moonstone3.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Moonstone3.jpg 450w, http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Moonstone3-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moonstone Beach, Cambria, extends for a mile. Most of it is rimmed by a boardwalk.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On the first week of retirement my true love gave to me\u2026.\u00a0 A list of all the things I hadn\u2019t done around the house while using writing the EdWeek column as an excuse.\u00a0 Since I\u2019ve been a workaholic for a long time, the list is long.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbor Arthur\u2019s elm was brushing against the tile roof and needed trimming before the next storm.\u00a0 The patio needed power washing, something that was forbidden during the drought.\u00a0 And one thing led to another.\u00a0 After the patio was washed down, the deck looked a little grubby, then the house, then the flat roof.\u00a0 Why not spray down the car?<\/p>\n<p>Good job, Chuck, she says while reminding me that I\u2019ve only put a dent in the list.<\/p>\n<p>My end of the week reward was a drive up the coast to Cambria, and a glorious two days of walking on the beach and driving up California 1.\u00a0 The highway is closed in two different places.\u00a0 A collapsed bridge stops southbound traffic.\u00a0 And a massive landslide about 18 miles north of Cambria halts northbound traffic.\u00a0\u00a0 Hearst Castle is still open.<\/p>\n<p>Leanne and I had a delightful drive to the end of the road.\u00a0 Since the road doesn\u2019t go through, there was virtually no traffic.\u00a0 No 50-foot RVs driven by flatlanders meeting you around the hairpin turns that are posted at 10 MPH.\u00a0 Plenty of spaces at the turnouts for long looks at a cobalt blue ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Even the Elephant Seals seemed to be a good mood.\u00a0 The big males were play fighting in the surf.\u00a0 The females and the young had abandoned them for their long journey in deep water, so the guys were just hanging at the beach waiting for their fur to molt before heading to Alaska.\u00a0 Theirs is the ultimate male spa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the first week of retirement my true love gave to me\u2026.\u00a0 A list of all the things I hadn\u2019t done around the house while using writing the EdWeek column as an excuse.\u00a0 Since I\u2019ve been a workaholic for a long time, the list is long. Neighbor Arthur\u2019s elm was brushing against the tile roof [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[184],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}