{"id":10085,"date":"2020-07-05T22:57:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T05:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=10085"},"modified":"2020-07-05T22:57:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T05:57:04","slug":"ptown-vs-fire-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/07\/05\/ptown-vs-fire-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Ptown vs. Fire Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After months of being incredibly careful and staying away from virtually all humanity, I\u2019ve thrown the whole wind into the caution and ventured back into the real world.&nbsp; Well, Provincetown.&nbsp; While this isn\u2019t the Ptown of yore (or mine), it\u2019s still lovely to get away.&nbsp; But is it even Provincetown?&nbsp; Certainly not a typical July 4<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; But the businesses are making the best of things.&nbsp; Bars that were unable to open because they don\u2019t serve food suddenly added sandwiches to their menu.&nbsp; Regardless, all eateries must close by 11PM, at which point the streets basically roll up.&nbsp; So, while it\u2019s still lovely, don\u2019t judge Ptown by this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, reports indicate that Fire Island is as busy as ever.&nbsp; One particular person joined in the 4<sup>th<\/sup> celebrations while knowing he had Covid.&nbsp; I won\u2019t name him or vilify him because, surely he wasn\u2019t the only positive person there.&nbsp; Many of these vacationers probably have the coronavirus \u2013 they just haven\u2019t been tested.&nbsp; But that doesn\u2019t make them any less contagious.&nbsp; I simply say what I said during the AIDS crisis \u2013 assume everyone is positive and act accordingly.&nbsp; You can still enjoy your life and be somewhat social while also being safe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of being incredibly careful and staying away from virtually all humanity, I\u2019ve thrown the whole wind into the caution and ventured back into the real world.&nbsp; Well, Provincetown.&nbsp; While this isn\u2019t the Ptown of yore (or mine), it\u2019s still lovely to get away.&nbsp; But is it even Provincetown?&nbsp; Certainly not a typical July<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10095,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10085\/revisions\/10095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}