{"id":2960,"date":"2015-03-17T10:35:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T14:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2015-03-17T10:35:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T14:35:09","slug":"setbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=2960","title":{"rendered":"Setbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I was<\/span> optimistic, and the weather is really warming up fast. Today would be a perfect day to go mudding, if I were in any condition to get into the mud. Sadly, I am not. In my spring enthusiasm, I managed to get a serious case of poison ivy infection. My left leg is a mess. About the time my poison ivy rash was reaching it’s peak, I managed to burn myself pretty badly on my face and left arm. That’s a long story that I’d rather not get into. If I hadn’t survived, I could have won a Darwin award.<\/p>\n

In any case, I’m missing a beautiful week with excellent low tides, because my skin has been compromised and I can’t risk a serious infection. It looks like I’ll get to edit more of that old video from 2014, after all. I am sad that I must wait for my body to recover, but I’m grateful that my injuries were not worse. I look pretty bad, but I should have a full recovery if I don’t do anything else stupid.<\/p>\n

Sorry, I don’t have any pictures for this post. I’m such a mess, I’d have to be fully clothed, and hide my face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I was optimistic, and the weather is really warming up fast. Today would be a perfect day to go mudding, if I were in any condition to get into the mud. Sadly, I am not. In my spring enthusiasm, I managed to get a serious case of poison ivy infection. My left leg is … 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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mudding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960","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=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2961,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions\/2961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}