{"id":8322,"date":"2008-08-11T20:09:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T00:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8322"},"modified":"2022-10-16T10:43:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T14:43:57","slug":"a-day-in-montauk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8322","title":{"rendered":"A Day In Montauk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; or should I say, a day spent <i>getting<\/i> to Montauk &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/allibenne.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/onward-to-montauk.html\">Allison has the whole tale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Within 10 minutes of picking her up, we were laughing all over again about the two of us driving through Ireland together, and how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?p=2142\">we would &#8220;support&#8221; one another, no matter the circumstance<\/a>.  The job of the &#8220;navigator&#8221; (ie: passenger) was to emotionally support the driver.  I would state, &#8220;I need to drive this slow right now.  I&#8217;m sorry.&#8221;  She would say, &#8220;Do whatever you need to do.&#8221;  She would drive up to one of the endless roundabouts, and sit there for 20 minutes, looking back and forth, reminding herself which way it was necessary to look.  She would murmur, &#8220;I&#8217;m so sorry.  I just am afraid to turn right right now.&#8221;  I would say, &#8220;Do what you need to do.&#8221;  We very quickly discovered that the job of the Navigator was just as important as the job of the Driver.  It is essential to have a non-judgmental atmosphere on road trips where <i>neither of you know where you are going.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>But what a beautiful day it was!<\/p>\n<p>I provide visual aids to her tale below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/2754482911_3f2352a2dd_c-e1665931433889.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-181843\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nOnce again: here is <a href=\"http:\/\/allibenne.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/onward-to-montauk.html\">Allison&#8217;s amusing version of the tale<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; or should I say, a day spent getting to Montauk &#8230; Allison has the whole tale. Within 10 minutes of picking her up, we were laughing all over again about the two of us driving through Ireland together, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8322\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[600,161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8322"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181844,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8322\/revisions\/181844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}