{"id":533,"date":"2006-06-29T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=533"},"modified":"2006-06-29T01:04:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T08:04:00","slug":"ah_seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2006\/06\/ah_seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah, Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Jazz And <strong>Other Matters<\/strong>, remember? We&#8217;ll get back to jazz before long.<em> Rifftides<\/em> readers have my mind on words, and Seattle has my mind on the splendid weather they&#8217;re having here and the hike I took around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.seattle.wa.us\/parks\/parkspaces\/greenlak.htm\"target=\"_blank\">Green Lake<\/a>. When the weather is good, as it is most Junes, there is no more breathtakingly beautiful city.<br \/>\nNext time you&#8217;re here, don&#8217;t miss Ravenna Park, an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ravenna_Park_(Seattle)\"target=\"_blank\">urban treasure<\/a> even many Seattleites have yet to discover. I pulled into one of the park&#8217;s few parking spots, lunched on a Clif Bar and an apple, then hiked into woods so deep, green and dense, I might have been in the wilds of the Olympic Peninsula.  For a half hour, the only other living creatures I saw were two crows trying to steal a morsel from a squirrel. The squirrel kept the food and escaped into the foliage. The crows squawked at the bushes for five minutes. It was a good day for a remarkably spunky squirrel. I enjoyed it, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Jazz And Other Matters, remember? We&#8217;ll get back to jazz before long. Rifftides readers have my mind on words, and Seattle has my mind on the splendid weather they&#8217;re having here and the hike I took around Green Lake. When the weather is good, as it is most Junes, there is no more breathtakingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}