{"id":2046,"date":"2013-08-12T12:46:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T16:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=2046"},"modified":"2013-08-12T23:41:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T03:41:02","slug":"exploring-a-tributary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=2046","title":{"rendered":"Exploring a Tributary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-08-12_back-medium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2047\" title=\"muddy speedos - back\" alt=\"Muddy, black speedos in the swamp\" src=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-08-12_back-medium-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-08-12_back-medium-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-08-12_back-medium-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-08-12_back-medium.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This morning, when I was supposed to be working, I slipped out for a short paddle on the creek. I figured I would miss most of the low tide, because I left late, but I caught the tail end of it, so I decided to slog up a side canal that I hadn&#8217;t explored in recent memory. I saw what I think was a large turtle, but it buried itself in the mud before I could get close enough to identify it.<\/p>\n<p>You can see by the pictures that I was up to my waist in mud, at times. At other times, the mud was about mid thigh. It was difficult walking, the entire time. After 20 minutes of exploring, I rinsed off and paddled a little further down the creek before turning back. The tide was coming in fast, so I enjoyed what time I had left to paddle, then hustled back to the office, in hopes that nobody noticed I was gone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-08-12_front-medium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2049\" title=\"Slogging in speedos\" alt=\"Muddy, black speedos in the swamp\" src=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-08-12_front-medium-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-08-12_front-medium-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-08-12_front-medium-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-08-12_front-medium.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-08-12_front-close.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2048\" title=\"muddy speedos - close\" alt=\"Muddy, black speedos in the swamp\" src=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-08-12_front-close-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-08-12_front-close-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-08-12_front-close-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-08-12_front-close.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI added a video from this trip to the <a title=\"Video Teasers\" href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?page_id=930\">Video Teasers<\/a> list. You can use <a title=\"Exploring video\" href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?page_id=2054\">this link<\/a> to go directly to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, when I was supposed to be working, I slipped out for a short paddle on the creek. I figured I would miss most of the low tide, because I left late, but I caught the tail end of it, so I decided to slog up a side canal that I hadn&#8217;t explored in &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=2046\">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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046","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=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2063,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions\/2063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}