{"id":2412,"date":"2014-04-09T21:15:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T01:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2014-04-09T21:15:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T01:15:48","slug":"a-new-camera-operator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=2412","title":{"rendered":"A New Camera Operator"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"_DJT2237\"<\/a>I was finally able to coordinate a trip with a friend of mine who has offered to operate a camera for me on a mud shoot. I wanted to do a Tarzan themed video in the woods, so I put on my lace-up, leather thong and we went to the peat swamp. Since this was my friend’s first trip into the deep swamp, I tried to make it easy for him. As it turned out, he strayed from the trail and got stuck. He managed to record his some of his predicament on video.<\/p>\n

\"_DJT2249l\"<\/a>For the main feature, I climbed around in my leather thong until I just happened to fall out of a tree and into a pool of bottomless peat mud. I struggled and eventually slipped below the surface of the quaking quagmire. I’m not sure how I manage to fall into a bottomless mud trap almost every time I go out. I guess it’s one of life’s great mysteries.\"_DJT2257\"<\/a> At least I manage to get it all on video!<\/p>\n

I had a pretty good time. The wind was a little chilly, so I didn’t stay in the mud as long as I would have liked. Once I was cleaned up, dried off, and dressed in dry clothes, we paddled around and shot some video on the creek. It was a pretty day to be out, even if it was a little cool for mudding.
\n\"_DJT2256l\"<\/a> Regarding these pictures, the first one in the upper left is me, setting up for one of the first scenes. The top right image shows where I got stuck and drowned. The next image on the left is after I dragged my muddy body out of the mud, and the lower left image is what I looked like immediately after my immersion in the thick peat mud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was finally able to coordinate a trip with a friend of mine who has offered to operate a camera for me on a mud shoot. I wanted to do a Tarzan themed video in the woods, so I put on my lace-up, leather thong and we went to the peat swamp. Since this was … Continue reading »<\/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":[3,16,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deepmud","category-tarzan","category-immersion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","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=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions\/2426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}