{"id":6748,"date":"2016-01-24T10:53:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T16:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6748"},"modified":"2016-01-24T11:42:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T17:42:45","slug":"intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6748","title":{"rendered":"My Larry David Intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/01\/aloha_Merry_Christmas.jpg\" TITLE=\"Aloha, Merry Christmas. Maui Light Painting\"><\/p>\n<p><Br><Br><\/p>\n<p>A glorious evening, full of stars. Warm.  A gift for someone escaping the midwest winter.  <\/p>\n<p>The walk was brisk but short.    <\/p>\n<p>That Sardinian family enjoying burgers at Bully&#8217;s (1) was still fresh in my mind.   They basked in the serenity that is Piilani highway (2) before beginning their long journey home in just a few short hours. <\/p>\n<p>I approached the entrance of a most sublime place, a long time favorite for its seclusion, beauty, peace, grace, snorkeling and a general lack of shopping.<\/p>\n<p><Br><Br><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/01\/sunset_makena_jimzellmer.jpg\" TITLE=\"Sunset Makena Beach Maui Hawaii\"><br \/>\n<br \/><Br><\/p>\n<p>Our paces matched.  The face vaguely familiar.  <\/p>\n<p>You chose well, I mentioned.  This place will soon be paved over, full of condos and shopping.  <\/p>\n<p>I asked if he lived here?  &#8220;No, I live in LA&#8221;.  &#8220;I&#8217;m here for a party&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>I turned left, he right with what appeared to be grown children close behind.   <\/p>\n<p>Two ships passing in the night.<\/p>\n<p><Br><Br><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/01\/fish2.jpg\" TITLE=\"Molokini Snorkeling,  Hawaii\"><br \/>\n<br \/><Br><\/p>\n<p>Larry David (3), a name I vaguely knew, lingering on the edge of my &#8220;memory dump&#8221; (4), now occupies a place in my head.  <\/p>\n<p>Every time I see a Bernie Sanders (5) hat, shirt, billboard, poster, email, tweet, post, thread or a Prius trunk decorated with stickers, it is Larry David that blasts into my mind. <\/p>\n<p>Living in Madison, this is a rather frequent occurrence. <\/p>\n<p>My struggle &#8230;&#8230;.. is likely to continue, awhile longer. <\/p>\n<p><Br><Br><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/01\/fish1.jpg\" TITLE=\"Molokini Snorkeling,  Hawaii\"><br \/>\n<br \/><Br><\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.triplelranchmaui.com\/Bully_s_Burgers.php\">Bully&#8217;s Burgers Maui<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=%22piilani+highway%22\">Piilani Highway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>3. <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=%22Larry+David%22&#038;ia=about\">Larry David<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>4. <a href=\"http:\/\/disney.wikia.com\/wiki\/Memory_Dump\">The Memory Dump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>5. <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=%22Larry+David%22+Bernie+Sanders&#038;ia=news\">Larry David&#8217;s Riff on Bernie Sanders<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A glorious evening, full of stars. Warm. A gift for someone escaping the midwest winter. The walk was brisk but short. That Sardinian family enjoying burgers at Bully&#8217;s (1) was still fresh in my mind. They basked in the serenity that is Piilani highway (2) before beginning their long journey home in just a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6748"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6752,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748\/revisions\/6752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}