{"id":2074,"date":"2013-09-21T17:28:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T21:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=2074"},"modified":"2013-09-21T17:28:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T21:28:55","slug":"santa-cruz-a-state-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=2074","title":{"rendered":"Santa Cruz: a State of Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Cruz is sure that it&#8217;s the coolest place in the hemisphere. The denizens run the gamut from racy to flaky, with all expressing pronounced Green tendencies. The bakeries are simply amazingly wonderful<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/9837058534\/\" title=\"Bacon cheddar biscuit at Companion Bakeshop, Santa Cruz by oook, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2817\/9837058534_3407d99e24_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" alt=\"Bacon cheddar biscuit at Companion Bakeshop, Santa Cruz\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/9837177506\/\" title=\"And a plain croissant, just because by oook, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7350\/9837177506_13e78122ee_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" alt=\"And a plain croissant, just because\"><\/a><\/center>and the grocery stores supply all that the racy\/flaky desire<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/9840766366\/\" title=\"frozen pizzas for all diets by oook, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3681\/9840766366_9bde37635a_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" alt=\"frozen pizzas for all diets\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/9840707765\/\" title=\"mixes by oook, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7304\/9840707765_b8e94e1d48_z.jpg\" width=\"478\" height=\"640\" alt=\"mixes\"><\/a><\/center>and of course the produce is preposterously fresh and succulent<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/9840706055\/\" title=\"olives2 by oook, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3740\/9840706055_8e83ef85fc_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" alt=\"olives2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/9840724205\/\" title=\"artichokes by oook, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3741\/9840724205_2954ecfb00_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" alt=\"artichokes\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/9840763786\/\" title=\"scallions by oook, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3694\/9840763786_053ff7807d_z.jpg\" width=\"452\" height=\"640\" alt=\"scallions\"><\/a><\/center>The strip malls have all sorts of goods and services<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/9837956824\/\" title=\"one stop shopping by oook, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5490\/9837956824_4742f3aa1d_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" alt=\"one stop shopping\"><\/a><\/center>and politico-spatial correctitude abounds<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/9838009046\/\" title=\"as amended by oook, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7381\/9838009046_45450faf21_z.jpg\" width=\"478\" height=\"640\" alt=\"as amended\"><\/a><\/center>Sigils are everywhere<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/9837986845\/\" title=\"bases covered by oook, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7363\/9837986845_a7f42c9c9c_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" alt=\"bases covered\"><\/a><\/center>and cover the ground from arcane to obtuse, with detours through the surreal. Wish I&#8217;d had more time to document, but it was just a quick trip this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Cruz is sure that it&#8217;s the coolest place in the hemisphere. The denizens run the gamut from racy to flaky, with all expressing pronounced Green tendencies. The bakeries are simply amazingly wonderful and the grocery stores supply all that the racy\/flaky desire and of course the produce is preposterously fresh and succulent The strip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2076,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions\/2076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}