{"id":1852,"date":"2013-05-14T22:01:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T02:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2013-05-14T22:01:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T02:01:32","slug":"claypit-follies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=1852","title":{"rendered":"Claypit Follies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/hanging.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1853 alignleft\" alt=\"hanging\" src=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/hanging-300x177.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/hanging-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/hanging-150x88.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/hanging.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On Sunday, after submitting to being hogtied for <a href=\"http:\/\/ropeday.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Rope Day<\/a>, I got up the nerve to do a head-first drop into the clay pit. I was a little apprehensive, since I had considered several scenarios of how the drop might play out. If the clay was too thick, I might hurt my neck. If it was thin enough to let me go fairly deep, I might have trouble pulling my head back to the surface, since the clay is like glue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/JMO_0385.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1854\" alt=\"JMO_0385\" src=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/JMO_0385-300x189.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/JMO_0385-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/JMO_0385-150x94.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/JMO_0385.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As it turned out, the clay was really thick and I did have a sore neck afterward, but nothing serious. I barely sank past my shoulders when I hit the clay. I had 2 video cameras recording the event, although it was somewhat anticlimactic. I&#8217;m not quite sure what to do with the video. I don&#8217;t feel like it is worthy of selling, but it&#8217;s too long to host here. I think I&#8217;ll upload it to deepsinkingguys and create a really short version for my blog.<\/p>\n<p>I still have some other things to try in the clay pit. At least I don&#8217;t have to wait for a low tide to take advantage of the clay pit. Hang in there, everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, after submitting to being hogtied for International Rope Day, I got up the nerve to do a head-first drop into the clay pit. I was a little apprehensive, since I had considered several scenarios of how the drop might play out. If the clay was too thick, I might hurt my neck. If &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=1852\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clay-pit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1857,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions\/1857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}