{"id":2386,"date":"2012-11-05T07:21:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T14:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/?p=2386"},"modified":"2012-11-05T16:09:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T23:09:48","slug":"little-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2012\/11\/little-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Little better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/2012-LM-11-05a.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2387\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2012\/11\/little-better\/2012-lm-11-05a\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/2012-LM-11-05a.jpg?fit=1536%2C1536&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1536,1536\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1352113805&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2012-LM-11-05a\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/2012-LM-11-05a.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/2012-LM-11-05a.jpg?fit=525%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/2012-LM-11-05a.jpg?resize=525%2C525\" alt=\"\" title=\"2012-LM-11-05a\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/2012-LM-11-05a.jpg?w=1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/2012-LM-11-05a.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/2012-LM-11-05a.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/2012-LM-11-05a.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/2012-LM-11-05b.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2388\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2012\/11\/little-better\/2012-lm-11-05b\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/2012-LM-11-05b.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2012-LM-11-05b\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/2012-LM-11-05b.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/2012-LM-11-05b.jpg?fit=525%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/2012-LM-11-05b.jpg?resize=525%2C53\" alt=\"\" title=\"2012-LM-11-05b\" width=\"525\" height=\"53\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2388\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surf: 7.2 ft at 12.1 s from NW at 305\u00c2\u00b0 Outgoing tide.<\/p>\n<p>Still closed out, still a mix of whomp and mush, but I&#8217;m finally surfing my crummy home waves a little better. <\/p>\n<p>Waist (occasionally chest) high at the left hand break. Got some fun little cruising rides and missed far fewer waves than I have been the last few sessions. That was a big relief. I&#8217;ve been getting so frustrated missing wave after wave. <\/p>\n<p>After a while, I moved north and went for some closeouts. I&#8217;ve been closeout shy for a few months. It was actually kind of nice (in a totally backwards way) to get a few whomping chest high closeouts without wincing. <\/p>\n<p>The lineup could still use a sandbar to smooth out the rough edges, but overall, not bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surf: 7.2 ft at 12.1 s from NW at 305\u00c2\u00b0 Outgoing tide. Still closed out, still a mix of whomp and mush, but I&#8217;m finally surfing my crummy home waves a little better. Waist (occasionally chest) high at the left hand break. Got some fun little cruising rides and missed far fewer waves than I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2012\/11\/little-better\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Little better&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,36,58,6],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YKrJ-Cu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions\/2389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}