{"id":50,"date":"2008-10-09T16:03:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T23:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/?p=50"},"modified":"2008-10-09T16:32:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T23:32:37","slug":"surfing-on-the-great-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2008\/10\/surfing-on-the-great-lakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Surfing on the Great Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_6120.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"56\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2008\/10\/surfing-on-the-great-lakes\/img_6120\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_6120.jpg?fit=2205%2C3128&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2205,3128\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 20D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1223598473&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;55&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Chicago at Sunset\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sunset, Chicago and a pretty clean wave&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_6120.jpg?fit=211%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_6120.jpg?fit=525%2C745&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56 alignnone\" title=\"Chicago at Sunset\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_6120.jpg?resize=500%2C709\" alt=\"Sunset, Chicago and a pretty clean wave\" width=\"500\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_6120.jpg?w=2205&amp;ssl=1 2205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_6120.jpg?resize=211%2C300&amp;ssl=1 211w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/.liza\/tkt_admin\/traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_6120.jpg?w=1050 1050w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/.liza\/tkt_admin\/traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_6120.jpg?w=1575 1575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m back in the Midwest visiting my folks. They recently moved from the house I grew up in to a new house about a half mile from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/indu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore<\/a>. If you&#8217;ve ever seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/step_into_liquid\/\" target=\"_blank\">Step Into Liquid<\/a> there&#8217;s a great scene about the die hard midwesterners surfing in Sheboygan. Today&#8217;s fairly clean although small waves got me thinking it might be worth a shot next summer.<\/p>\n<p>Waves throughout the day were about 1-3 ft, water temp was 64 and some of the waves breaking out on the sand bar didn&#8217;t look half bad. If I can find a real cheap junker longboard to throw in my parents garage I might just be able to try it next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back in the Midwest visiting my folks. They recently moved from the house I grew up in to a new house about a half mile from the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. If you&#8217;ve ever seen Step Into Liquid there&#8217;s a great scene about the die hard midwesterners surfing in Sheboygan. Today&#8217;s fairly clean although &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2008\/10\/surfing-on-the-great-lakes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Surfing on the Great Lakes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[16],"tags":[17,14],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YKrJ-O","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"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=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}