{"id":1301,"date":"2026-06-02T15:46:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:46:32","slug":"peace-at-the-lake-in-the-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/peace-at-the-lake-in-the-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace at the Lake in the Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have found peace getting to the lake at 6am, especially on a weekday before work.  So much so that I am breaking my rule of using &#8220;what I have&#8221; and I&#8217;ve ordered a new RC boat.  I did so because I really want my son to experience this peace.  His generation stays indoors and plays video games.  I want him to feel the joy of nature.  He may or may not care, I&#8217;m not sure.  So far, he has not.  But I have to try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new boat is designed to be driven hard.  It can flip over and then right itself.  Perfect for a kid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a shot from this morning.  I love the undulating rooster tail over the swells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/undulations-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/undulations-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/undulations-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/undulations-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/undulations-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/undulations-2048x1542.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have found peace getting to the lake at 6am, especially on a weekday before work. So much so that I am breaking my rule of using &#8220;what I have&#8221; and I&#8217;ve ordered a new RC boat. I did so because I really want my son to experience this peace. His generation stays indoors and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions\/1303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}