{"id":1422,"date":"2009-09-02T08:02:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T08:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2009-09-02T08:02:49","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T08:02:49","slug":"swimming-at-6-a.m.","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1422","title":{"rendered":"Swimming at 6 A.M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nFinally I got up early enough to be at the pool before 6 AM and my, do people wake up early. And since it's closing in on the autumnal equinox (Sept 22 2009), it's dark enough for me to spot Venus, even Sirius, Procyon and Betelgeuse. Most are old folks though, as seen below. Lapped for 30 minutes, had a quick breakfast, fried meehoon and cold soymilk at Ah Hong's restaurant (Vietnamese\/Malaysian) for $3.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scholars.homeip.net\/blog\/gallery\/1\/Photo_090209_001.jpg\" alt=\"Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Aquatic Center 6:00 A.M. Queue outside. Taken by Palm Treo 680.\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scholars.homeip.net\/blog\/gallery\/1\/Photo_090209_002.jpg\" alt=\"Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Aquatic Center 6:00 A.M. Queue inside, check-in, showing proof of swimming caps and locker locks. Taken by Palm Treo 680.\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(Top) Taken outside at 6 AM,\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(Bottom) Inside check-in, checking swimming caps and locks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPhotos taken by Palm Treo 680...perhaps the lens needs cleaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally I got up early enough to be at the pool before 6 AM and my, do people wake up early. And since it's closing in on the autumnal equinox (Sept 22 2009), it's dark enough for me to spot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1422\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}