{"id":1260,"date":"2014-09-03T01:33:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T01:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/day19.com\/text\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2014-09-03T01:33:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T01:33:58","slug":"theres-this-amazing-little-island-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/day19.com\/text\/?p=1260","title":{"rendered":"Theres this amazing little island in New Jersey."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/day19.com\/blog\/0814\/EC_blog\/weiss_E45C4022.jpg\"><br \/>\nThis is a blog post about spending time this summer on Raccoon Island on Lake Hopatcong in the great state of New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/day19.com\/blog\/0814\/EC_blog\/weiss_E45C4627.jpg\"><br \/>\nSo this is my Dad&#8217;s get away house.  It&#8217;s a pretty amazing little island with about 40 homes, accessible by ferry in the summer and walking on the ice in the winter.  There&#8217;s always a lot of fireworks, 4 wheeling, swimming and a ton of adventure time to be had.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/day19.com\/blog\/0814\/EC_blog\/weiss_E45C3936.jpg\"><br \/>\nAnd this guy got his first quad.  A 125cc with reverse.  I think he aged 5 years the day he first got a taste of it.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/day19.com\/blog\/0814\/EC_blog\/weiss_E45C3917.jpg\"><br \/>\nThis is my Pops going thru the basics of what to do.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/day19.com\/blog\/0814\/EC_blog\/weiss_E45C3947.jpg\"><br \/>\nAnd this is my Pops encouraging him to now go down this street as fast as he can.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/day19.com\/blog\/0814\/EC_blog\/weiss_E45C3944.jpg\"><br \/>\nMy Dad is like the ambassador of this rad little island.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/day19.com\/blog\/0814\/EC_blog\/weiss_E45C3965.jpg\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/day19.com\/blog\/0814\/EC_blog\/weiss_E45C3988.jpg\"><br \/>\nObsessed.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/day19.com\/blog\/0814\/EC_blog\/weiss_E45C4150.jpg\"><br \/>\nBrian Cannon and kids.  They&#8217;ve been close friends forever and the best man at our wedding.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/day19.com\/blog\/0814\/EC_blog\/weiss_E45C3989.jpg\"><br \/>\nHurricane Sandy tore this place up pretty bad but in its wake it left some incredible fantasy worlds for little ones.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/day19.com\/blog\/0814\/EC_blog\/weiss_E45C4034.jpg\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/day19.com\/blog\/0814\/EC_blog\/weiss_E45C4255-2.jpg\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/day19.com\/blog\/0814\/EC_blog\/weiss_E45C4267.jpg\"><br \/>\nOh yeah, and its surrounded by a lake.  Eli and Grandpa.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/day19.com\/blog\/0814\/EC_blog\/weiss_E45C4412.jpg\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/day19.com\/blog\/0814\/EC_blog\/weiss_E45C4513.jpg\"><br \/>\nLittle guy 2.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/day19.com\/blog\/0814\/EC_blog\/weiss_E45C3871.jpg\"><br \/>\nWe also visited KJ while in NJ.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/day19.com\/blog\/0814\/EC_blog\/weiss_E45C3721.jpg\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/day19.com\/blog\/0814\/EC_blog\/weiss_E45C3769.jpg\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/day19.com\/blog\/0814\/EC_blog\/weiss_E45C3912.jpg\"><br \/>\nTill next summer NJ and the great Raccoon Island!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a blog post about spending time this summer on Raccoon Island on Lake Hopatcong in the great state of New Jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/day19.com\/text\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/day19.com\/text\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/day19.com\/text\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/day19.com\/text\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/day19.com\/text\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/day19.com\/text\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"http:\/\/day19.com\/text\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/day19.com\/text\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/day19.com\/text\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/day19.com\/text\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}