{"id":1419,"date":"2007-10-25T22:32:54","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T05:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2007-10-25T22:32:44","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T05:32:44","slug":"carlsbad-writer-contemplates-ash-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1419","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbad Writer Contemplates Ash Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/ash-man2.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/ash-man2.jpg','popup','width=235,height=267,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/ash-man2-tm.jpg\" height=\"227\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ash Man2\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/lowell_ponte\/bio\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lowell Ponte<\/a><\/strong>, a Carlsbad-based writer, former radio host, and avid local garage sailor wrote today about the fires in San Diego County for a site called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/lowell_ponte\/california_bruash_fires\/2007\/10\/25\/44015.html\" target=\"_blank\">Newsmax.com<\/a><\/strong>. In his article he mentions thinking about putting on a mask and going outside to play in the ashes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an odd moment yesterday, I thought it might be fun to go outside with my dust mask, lie down on our ash-covered driveway, and move my arms to make a snow angel. I pondered whether the fragile ash could be formed into a snowman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, Mr. Ponte was unsuccessful in both missions. But at least Lowell hasn&#8217;t lost that wacky sense of humor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/lowell_ponte\/california_bruash_fires\/2007\/10\/25\/44015.html\" target=\"_blank\">Newsmax.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lowell Ponte, a Carlsbad-based writer, former radio host, and avid local garage sailor wrote today about the fires in San Diego County for a site called Newsmax.com. In his article he mentions thinking about putting on a mask and going outside to play in the ashes: In an odd moment yesterday, I thought it might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}