{"id":104,"date":"2006-10-15T01:31:34","date_gmt":"2006-10-15T05:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worksforfood.com\/read\/2006\/10\/15\/lamma-lameness\/"},"modified":"2009-10-18T00:05:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T04:05:50","slug":"lamma-lameness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/2006\/10\/15\/lamma-lameness\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamma Lameness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our excursion to Sai Kung ran into choppy water, so we went to Lamma Island instead.  After attempting to put in at a beach where our small boat couldn&#8217;t safely dock, we settled for what is known as Power Station Beach.  It was just as charming as it sounds.  I had some fun, though, and came back slightly burned for my trouble (though we rarely saw the sun peaking through the clouds\/haze\/smog).  <\/p>\n<p>The boat trip was exciting in a disagreeable way, with heavy pitch and roll along with scattered seasickness and a seizure on our way out.  The ride back was less traumatizing but just as erratic in quality.<\/p>\n<p>I got dumped all-too-easily from the &#8220;banana boat&#8221; into some of the nastiest salt water I&#8217;ve yet had the pleasure of having forced down my throat.  Attempts at beach volleyball and Sea-Monkey in the Middle were more fun and required less effort.  Stepped on (but did not break) a light bulb during the volleyball.  I&#8217;ll take that as an omen of luck.<\/p>\n<div class=\"g2image_centered\"><wpg2id>1924<\/wpg2id><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our excursion to Sai Kung ran into choppy water, so we went to Lamma Island instead. After attempting to put in at a beach where our small boat couldn&#8217;t safely dock, we settled for what is known as Power Station Beach. It was just as charming as it sounds. I had some fun, though, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[147],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong","tag-lamma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}