{"id":7430,"date":"2018-05-12T19:23:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T19:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/?p=7430"},"modified":"2018-05-12T19:23:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T19:23:21","slug":"kooky-crabcake-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/?p=7430","title":{"rendered":"Kooky Crabcake Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It’s so difficult to describe Tangier Island in Virginia.\"\"<\/a> Unique comes to mind.\"\"<\/a> Generations of watermen have eked out a living from the sea. Mostly crabs and oysters.\"\"<\/a>
\n\"\"<\/a>The island is very small. About a mile long.
\nThere are no cars, only golf buggies, motor scooters, and bikes.\"\"<\/a>
\n\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>They bury their dead family members in the front yard.\"\"<\/a>
\n\"\"<\/a>Shacks and docks that the working watermen use are not connected to land.\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>
\nThey park their working boats there and dinghy to shore.\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s a little bit like Cuttyhunk, MA, only stranger. The natives speak in an accent reminiscent of down east Maine, but with more marbles in their mouth.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

They have a small airport, a market, a dump, and a few restaurants. We ate at one and the crab cakes were delicious. Maybe that’s why XO describes it as a kooky crab cake island. SOCOBO 5\/12\/18\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s so difficult to describe Tangier Island in Virginia. Unique comes to mind. Generations of watermen have eked out a living from the sea. Mostly crabs and oysters. The island is very small. About a mile long. There are no … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2TWzP-1VQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7430"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7501,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7430\/revisions\/7501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}