{"id":569,"date":"2004-01-03T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-03T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/569"},"modified":"2004-01-03T10:56:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-03T14:56:00","slug":"face-the-fear-or-run-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/569","title":{"rendered":"Face the Fear? or&#8230; &#8216;Run Away!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a little girl, I had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/listersgirl\/72811.html?thread=191339#t191339\">recurring nightmare about going down a plastic slide and being submerged in the bottom of a shark tank<\/a>. To my youthful mind, this fear was paralysing, nerve-wracking, horrifying. My worst fear. <\/p>\n<p>As I grew older, I convinced myself it wasn&#8217;t really anything to lose sleep over, because you see I live in Canada, where the only sharks around are safely ensconced in places like Marineland, where I have made it a policy NEVER TO VISIT. <\/p>\n<p>However. Now I am in the Bahamas. And my cousins *really* want to go for a day trip to Atlantis on Paradise Island, because you see, they have all these cool water attractions there. Including the &#8220;five story corkscrew Serpent Slide, where guests travel on a tube at high speeds through the darkness of the Mayan Temple&#8217;s core, culminating with <b>a leisurely pass through a clear acrylic tunnel submerged in a shark-filled lagoon<\/b>.&#8221; I shit you not. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantis.com\/atlantis_layers1024.asp\">My nightmare exists<\/a>. And my cousins want me to plunge into it.<\/p>\n<p>And now&#8230; my first ever poll! Give me your input on my holiday activities (or lack thereof).<br \/>\n<lj-poll-227896><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a little girl, I had a recurring nightmare about going down a plastic slide and being submerged in the bottom of a shark tank. To my youthful mind, this fear was paralysing, nerve-wracking, horrifying. My worst fear. As I grew older, I convinced myself it wasn&#8217;t really anything to lose sleep over, <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/569\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}