{"id":922,"date":"2010-09-05T08:54:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T13:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/?p=922"},"modified":"2010-09-20T19:12:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T00:12:16","slug":"atlantic-beach-hands-us-our-butts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2010\/atlantic-beach-hands-us-our-butts\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic Beach hands us our butts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love big waves, but what we found at the beach last weekend was beyond rough.  A hurricane in the Atlantic was just starting to pick things up, and unbeknownst to us, there was a riptide warning.  We innocently hit the waves with our boogie boards&#8230; and Gary left the skin from half his face mixed into the concrete-hard shore, Wren got rolled so hard she came up with more sand on her head than hair (and a tear in her eye, but she kept going), I got slapped upside the back of the head with a wave-enforced boogie board so hard it gave me a 24-hour headache, and, worst of all, the first wave she saw tore Andrea&#8217;s ACL.  <\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: An MRI confirmed the tear.  She&#8217;s pondering her less-than-optimal options.  :-(<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Andrea had physical therapy today, she was happy with the way it went, whoop.  And Uncle Ron (the surgeon) says he never had surgery and did fine.  More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love big waves, but what we found at the beach last weekend was beyond rough. A hurricane in the Atlantic was just starting to pick things up, and unbeknownst to us, there was a riptide warning. We innocently hit the waves with our boogie boards&#8230; and Gary left the skin from half his face &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2010\/atlantic-beach-hands-us-our-butts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Atlantic Beach hands us our butts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-eS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":255,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2007\/riptide-beats-us-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":922,"position":0},"title":"Riptide beats us up","author":"m","date":"October 2, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We headed out for a couple beach days, it was all perfect: the drive (a short hop straight east to the shore), the hotel (a cute little Holiday Inn that allowed pets - we had Roxie with us), the beach (it was savage, knocking Wren's boogie board into her gut,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All My Rowdy Friends&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All My Rowdy Friends","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/all-my-rowdy-friends\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":114,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2004\/hot-hot-hot\/","url_meta":{"origin":922,"position":1},"title":"Beach day!","author":"m","date":"July 6, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday we went with the Gillespe's to Wrightsville Beach on the coast of NC. 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