{"id":24853,"date":"2017-01-11T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=24853"},"modified":"2017-01-11T08:50:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T13:50:53","slug":"walk-on-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/11\/walk-on-water\/","title":{"rendered":"WALK ON WATER"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I walked<\/strong> <\/span>on water, across Horseshoe Lake in Shaker Heights, the other day. You\u2019re not supposed to walk on the lake, but around it. I walk on it every 25 years or so. Why not walk on water? What\u2019s the worst that could happen? Drown?\u00a0 (The lake is only 4-feet deep. I know this because I saw it dredged about 20 years ago.)\u00a0 A former county engineer described the Shaker Lakes system as a “two-bit duck pond.”<\/p>\n

I like a new outlook —\u00a0 like standing in the middle of a lake. On Sunday evening it was dark and 15 degrees; nearly everybody was inside. I saw about four cars while I was at the lake. I wish I had done a \u201cScript Ohio\u201d in the snow with my name \u201cBert.\u201d Nick Mileti, the former owner of the Cavs,\u00a0 said he built the Coliseum in Richfield, Ohio, to “have some fun, make some dough, leave some footprints in the sand.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are my footprints:<\/p>\n

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Horseshoe Lake, Shaker Heights, Ohio<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m not<\/strong><\/span> onboard for cremation and scattering my ashes, but if I were, I would have my ashes strewn over Horseshoe Lake, which I walk around every couple days. One big drawback: the dredging every 20 years, that\u2019s kind of gross, ashes-wise.<\/p>\n

Years ago \u2013 about 100 \u2013 there was boating on the lake. This now happens about every ten years, when Shaker Heights throws a family day. Horseshoe Lake is three-fourths in Shaker Heights and one-fourth in Cleveland Heights. I started on the Shaker side, in case you’re wondering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I walked on water, across Horseshoe Lake in Shaker Heights, the other day. You\u2019re not supposed to walk on the lake, but around it. I walk on it every 25 years or so. Why not walk on water? What\u2019s the worst that could happen? Drown?\u00a0 (The lake is only 4-feet deep. I know this because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24853"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24860,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24853\/revisions\/24860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}