{"id":4403,"date":"2011-03-18T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4403"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","slug":"day-125-shells-from-myrtle-beach-throw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4403","title":{"rendered":"Day 125 &#8211; Shells from Myrtle Beach (Throw)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/021-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last summer we used our time share to spend a week in Myrtle Beach.\u00a0 It was a fantastic experience and the most relaxing vacation we&#8217;d had for\u00a0a long time.\u00a0 Our kids are finally getting old enough to make a vacation enjoyable &#8230; instead of work in an exotic location. We spent quite a few hours on the beach, of course.\u00a0 And each time we hit the coast, the kids collected shells.\u00a0 And more shells.\u00a0 And more.\u00a0 Until we had an entire bucketful of shells that just HAD to go back to Indiana with us.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because we&#8217;re going to make necklaces out of them and keep them all as souvenirs.\u00a0 The kids insisted that, because each one was so incredibly beautiful and unique, none could be left behind.\u00a0 I even accidentally spilled the bucket a couple of times during the week.\u00a0 Still, we carted hundreds of shells back home. Where they sat on the back deck. For months. Until i moved them down by the garage. For a few more months. Where they got spilled the other day. And that&#8217;s where I found them last night around 10 PM.\u00a0\u00a0I scooped them up on a snowsled and\u00a0took them on\u00a0a short trip from the garage to the trash cans &#8230; and none of the kids will even notice.\u00a0 Although I feel bad about depriving them of neckware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer we used our time share to spend a week in Myrtle Beach.\u00a0 It was a fantastic experience and the most relaxing vacation we&#8217;d had for\u00a0a long time.\u00a0 Our kids are finally getting old enough to make a vacation enjoyable &#8230; instead of work in an exotic location. We spent quite a few hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4405,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions\/4405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}