{"id":867,"date":"2025-09-18T12:59:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/?p=867"},"modified":"2025-09-18T15:59:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:59:40","slug":"silent-steps-on-the-reef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/silent-steps-on-the-reef\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent Steps on the Reef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The imperceptible ticking of small legs echoes, barely veiled by the roar of the waves and the eternal flow of the waters.<br \/>Faint movements, glimpsed at the edge of vision or beneath the water\u2019s surface, reveal the presence of something \u2014 or someone \u2014 carrying out ancient tasks, heedless of the passing ages. <\/p>\n<figure data-align=\"center\" data-size=\"best-fit\" data-id=\"MZYIgmsw9d92pGUflT4mk\" data-version=\"v2\" data-type=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"MZYIgmsw9d92pGUflT4mk\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MZYIgmsw9d92pGUflT4mk\"><\/figure>\n<figure data-align=\"center\" data-size=\"best-fit\" data-id=\"CLYLIBbS9pCNEHs9fTuOE\" data-version=\"v2\" data-type=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"CLYLIBbS9pCNEHs9fTuOE\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CLYLIBbS9pCNEHs9fTuOE\"><\/figure>\n<figure data-align=\"center\" data-size=\"best-fit\" data-id=\"hh4UmJnyLqc9ufXZCEPwh\" data-version=\"v2\" data-type=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"hh4UmJnyLqc9ufXZCEPwh\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/hh4UmJnyLqc9ufXZCEPwh\"><\/figure>\n<figure data-align=\"center\" data-size=\"best-fit\" data-id=\"XK4PGLX1wgjsUFTlDf77R\" data-version=\"v2\" data-type=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"XK4PGLX1wgjsUFTlDf77R\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/XK4PGLX1wgjsUFTlDf77R\"><\/figure>\n<figure data-align=\"center\" data-size=\"best-fit\" data-id=\"vNaCh3nRJ6enwGVl2CxV6\" data-version=\"v2\" data-type=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"vNaCh3nRJ6enwGVl2CxV6\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/vNaCh3nRJ6enwGVl2CxV6\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The imperceptible ticking of small legs echoes, barely veiled by the roar of the waves and the eternal flow of the waters.Faint movements, glimpsed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/silent-steps-on-the-reef\/\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}