{"id":5689,"date":"2011-06-27T11:56:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T11:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/06\/27\/even-bad-guys-have-good-ideas\/"},"modified":"2011-06-27T11:56:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T11:56:37","slug":"even-bad-guys-have-good-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/06\/27\/even-bad-guys-have-good-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Bad Guys Have Good Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"

We spent Sunday morning introducing SteelyKid to one of my favorite places in the world, Jones Beach<\/a> on Long Island. She was ok with the water until an unexpected wave sideswiped us and splashed her in the face, but enjoyed the sand quite a bit. And I got to swim in the ocean and body-surf on some reasonably good waves. I was too busy swimming to remember to snap cell phone pictures of SteelyKid at play, so you’ll just have to use your imagination.<\/p>\n

A lot of liberal-ish bloggers will invoke the name of the city planner Robert Moses<\/a> as practically a curse– he’s blamed for enabling “car culture” and a host of other modern American urban problems. This came as a bit of a surprise to me, when I first encountered it, as my primary association with the name is as the easternmost part of Jones Beach, because he was the one who arranged for all that land to be set aside as a park<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And, having been to a number of other, more developed beaches on the Atlantic Coast, I’m just about inclined to forgive him everything else for the sake of that. He was a stone bastard in a lot of ways, but making sure that that stretch of beach is relatively untouched and free of development is a great good deed in my book. Yeah, the services in the park could be better (though the fries we had at lunch Sunday were surprisingly good, once we finally got them), but at least it’s a public park, not a chopped-up stretch of exclusive hotel properties, or tacky boardwalk trash emporia. You can go there, and swim and enjoy the sun and the sand in relative peace and quiet.<\/p>\n

So, anyway, keep that in mind the next time someone curses his name. Even bad guys do god things sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We spent Sunday morning introducing SteelyKid to one of my favorite places in the world, Jones Beach on Long Island. She was ok with the water until an unexpected wave sideswiped us and splashed her in the face, but enjoyed the sand quite a bit. And I got to swim in the ocean and body-surf… Continue reading Even Bad Guys Have Good Ideas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}