{"id":258,"date":"2004-09-07T22:27:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-07T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=258"},"modified":"2004-09-07T22:27:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-07T22:27:00","slug":"258","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Life’s a Beach<\/strong><\/p>\n

You’ve seen this slogan as kitsch<\/a>, as travel brochure, and all, but have you considered that beaches are “a model civic space: tolerant, playful, self-regulating”?<\/p>\n

More here<\/a>, from the people who invented going to the beach. (Thanks to Arts & Letters Daily<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

And don’t forget the special debt owed to beach-goers by the publishing industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Life’s a Beach You’ve seen this slogan as kitsch, as travel brochure, and all, but have you considered that beaches are “a model civic space: tolerant, playful, self-regulating”? More here, from the people who invented going to the beach. (Thanks to Arts & Letters Daily.) 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Some slight changes will be made in public beaches, to make the situation better than it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Egypt\"","block_context":{"text":"Egypt","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=egypt"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":248,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=248","url_meta":{"origin":258,"position":4},"title":"Randomness I am really too\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 23, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Randomness I am really too busy preparing for fall classes to blog right now, but meanwhile... First, from CultureCat (11 August), this thought: [Colleague who's just starting to learn about blogs, reflecting after our lengthy discussion of public\/private and the pros and cons of real name v. pseudonym in blogging]\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1997,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1997","url_meta":{"origin":258,"position":5},"title":"Danish Debate: Bare Breasts or Bacon?","author":"Chas S. 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