{"id":810,"date":"2020-01-04T18:02:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T23:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=810"},"modified":"2020-04-30T06:02:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T10:02:59","slug":"pool-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/pool-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pool boy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/top-view-photography-of-blue-pool-tiles-347143-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-811\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/top-view-photography-of-blue-pool-tiles-347143-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/top-view-photography-of-blue-pool-tiles-347143-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/top-view-photography-of-blue-pool-tiles-347143-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/top-view-photography-of-blue-pool-tiles-347143-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/top-view-photography-of-blue-pool-tiles-347143.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Photo by\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@tirachard-kumtanom-112571?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Tirachard Kumtanom<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/top-view-photography-of-blue-pool-tiles-347143\/?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Pexels<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was eight years old, I watched an episode of \u201c\u0627\u0644\u0623\u0645\u064a\u0631\u0629 \u064a\u0627\u0642\u0648\u062a\u201d in which Yaqout is on a boat in the middle of the ocean. We see this from a bird\u2019s eye view, and below the boat is a shadow of a giant stingray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That scene haunts me to this day. I don\u2019t like the sea because of the shadows. I prefer swimming pools, except, of course, at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You see, in the same year, I was watching a movie with my parents. I don\u2019t know why they let me watch it. I don\u2019t remember the name of it or anything, but there\u2019s a scene in which someone slips a crocodile into the swimming pool to murder a girl swimming at night. She escaped at the last moment, as they always do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I realize that I\u2019m quite impressionable, and my childhood has provided my imagination with enough ammunition to intimidate me for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, sea or pool? Pool. In the daytime strictly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was eight years old, I watched an episode of \u201c\u0627\u0644\u0623\u0645\u064a\u0631\u0629 \u064a\u0627\u0642\u0648\u062a\u201d in which Yaqout is on a boat in the middle of the ocean. We see this from a bird\u2019s eye view, and below the boat is a shadow of a giant stingray. That scene haunts me to this day. I don\u2019t like &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/pool-boy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pool boy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}