{"id":2396,"date":"2014-04-03T13:04:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T17:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=2396"},"modified":"2014-04-03T13:04:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T17:04:27","slug":"april-1-foolish-mud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=2396","title":{"rendered":"April 1 Foolish Mud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-04-01_e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2401\" alt=\"2014-04-01_e\" src=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-04-01_e-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-04-01_e-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-04-01_e-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-04-01_e-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-04-01_e.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Low tide was just 1 hour before sunset, and the temperature was already dropping when I put my boat in the water. However, it was April Fools Day, and I am a fool for mud. I took some warm clothes, in case I got chilled by the cold water.<\/p>\n<p>The tide was still going out when I arrived at the mud. I had less than an hour to sunset, so I couldn&#8217;t wait for low tide. I was also sure that I would not be getting very muddy. I arrived wearing jean cut-offs and a cotton shirt. I wasn&#8217;t there long before I stripped down to my Tarzan thong. I wandered around, barefooted, in the soft swamp mud, and sank up to my thighs a few times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-04-01_c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2399\" alt=\"2014-04-01_c\" src=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-04-01_c-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-04-01_c-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-04-01_c-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-04-01_c-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-04-01_c.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I don&#8217;t really have much to report. It was a very short trip. The mud felt good on my legs, and I longed to go deeper, but the temperature was dropping noticeably as the sun met with the western horizon. It was a nice day to be out. I would have gone out sooner, but I&#8217;ve been busy, and there wasn&#8217;t going to be any mud to play in until 6:30, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I did get some video of my bare feet, for people who like muddy feet. I also shot as much of the &#8220;action&#8221; as I could, so I&#8217;d have something of a video-blog from the trip. The video will be pretty short, when it&#8217;s ready. I&#8217;m not sure if it will be a free video, or an inexpensive for-sale clip. That will depend, in part, on whether or not I get a lot more video in the coming weeks. I&#8217;m going to update the <a title=\"2014 Images\" href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?page_id=2364\">2014 gallery<\/a> with a couple more frames of me in my thong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low tide was just 1 hour before sunset, and the temperature was already dropping when I put my boat in the water. However, it was April Fools Day, and I am a fool for mud. I took some warm clothes, in case I got chilled by the cold water. The tide was still going out &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=2396\">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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deepmud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396","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=2396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2402,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions\/2402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}