{"id":60,"date":"2019-01-13T13:47:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T13:47:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-07-26T18:17:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:17:43","slug":"open-late-closed-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Strawberries fields dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I<\/span>‘m a firm believer that how your day goes depends on how you choose to start it. The days I’ve gotten up late and eaten a junky breakfast, my day is usually sluggish and a bit depressing. However, when I wake up early and take the time to gently allow myself to come into the day, I know I have an awesome 24 hours ahead of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My hotel was in Yountville and I\u2019d done no pre-planning. I asked the concierge for a running or hiking trail nearby, with underwhelming results. So in typical California fashion,
\nI decided to drive to my exercise. A quick Google search turned up Jack London State Park. If it was named after the author of White Fang <\/em>and Call of the Wild<\/em>, it had to kick ass, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"DeathtoStock_NYC19\"
Two Margaritas hanging out<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Chalk one up for the analog experience. I love maps. I buy them just before I leave on any significant trip and they end up cluttering my apartment, living under the bed in plastic bins and shoved in the corners of bookcases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

My hotel was in Yountville and I\u2019d done no pre-planning. I asked the concierge for a running or hiking trail nearby, with underwhelming results. So in typical California fashion,
\nI decided to drive to my exercise. A quick Google search turned up Jack London State Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"DeathtoStock_NYC18\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

That summer, since I have been postponing on seeing who\u2019s Frida and how good is her coffee, I decided to grab a bus and see with my own eyes (and taste) this mystique coffee shop she\u2019s been telling me about. And there I am, talking with Frida, just in front of the coffee store, not even entering the place, and things are just delightful from the beginning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I‘m a firm believer that how your day goes depends on how you choose to start it. The days I’ve gotten up late and eaten a junky breakfast, my day is usually sluggish and a bit depressing. However, when I wake up early and take the time to gently allow myself to come into the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","entry-image--portrait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}