{"id":3998,"date":"2013-09-14T12:20:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T19:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=3998"},"modified":"2013-09-19T13:11:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T20:11:35","slug":"emerald-isle-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=3998","title":{"rendered":"Emerald Isle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late summer beach trip!\u00c2\u00a0 Paul and I joined Ken, Karen, and the kids at the beach for a weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 Emerald Isle is one of North Carolina&#8217;s &#8220;outer banks.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s part of a series of long sandy islands running right up close along the coastline.\u00c2\u00a0 The islands are like a long winding snake, but so narrow that from the second story of any building you can see the wide, reedy salt marsh on one side (between the island and the mainland) and the dunes, beach, and sea on the other side.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s really magical.<\/p>\n<p>We got there Friday, went 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