{"id":15,"date":"2013-03-11T20:44:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T20:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timothyjcotter.com\/_blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2013-03-11T20:44:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T20:44:39","slug":"underwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timothyjcotter.com\/_blog\/underwater\/","title":{"rendered":"Underwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The term &#8220;underwater&#8221; took on a new meaning a few years ago.\u00a0 Before 2006 has anyone ever heard of a homeowner being &#8220;underwater&#8221;?\u00a0 Although we have helped hundreds of\u00a0clients who are &#8220;underwater&#8221;, this term always had a different meaning to me.\u00a0 I have actually enjoyed being underwater, and\u00a0try to get underwater as often as possible.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My love of being underwater started in 1989, when I was in college &#8211; and I wasn&#8217;t even a homeowner.\u00a0 I started scuba diving in 1989 in the cold waters of Lake Huron\u00a0and in some\u00a0local northern Michigan dams.\u00a0 I blame this love of the water on my brother-in-law,\u00a0who had started diving around the same time.\u00a0 In Michigan, scuba diving is a seasonal sport, and even in the heat of summer you still need a thick wetsuit to keep somewhat warm.<\/p>\n<p>What interested me immediatly about diving was that\u00a0when\u00a0I\u00a0went under water,\u00a0I was\u00a0entering a world that had been virtually untouched and unexplored.\u00a0 Naturally, diving in Michigan is very different than diving in Florida, and it would take me several more years before I got my first taste of salt water diving.\u00a0 But, even so, I new immediatley that this was a sport that would always keep my interest &#8211;\u00a0physically and mentally demanding, and fascinating at the same time.\u00a0 With two thirds of the world covered in water, there is no limit of places to explore.\u00a0 In a few short weeks, I will be &#8220;underwater&#8221; again &#8211; and I cannot wait.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<!-- start wp-tags-to-technorati 1.02 -->\n\n<!-- end wp-tags-to-technorati -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term &#8220;underwater&#8221; took on a new meaning a few years ago.\u00a0 Before 2006 has anyone ever heard of a homeowner being &#8220;underwater&#8221;?\u00a0 Although we have helped hundreds of\u00a0clients who are &#8220;underwater&#8221;, this term always had a different meaning to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timothyjcotter.com\/_blog\/underwater\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,6,7,4,5,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyjcotter.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyjcotter.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyjcotter.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyjcotter.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyjcotter.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyjcotter.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyjcotter.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyjcotter.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyjcotter.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyjcotter.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}