{"id":5101,"date":"2020-10-28T15:46:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T19:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=5101"},"modified":"2020-10-28T16:00:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T20:00:29","slug":"mud-pit-revitalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=5101","title":{"rendered":"Mud Pit Revitalization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/P1030299-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/P1030299-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/P1030299-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/P1030299-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/P1030299-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/P1030299.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been completely redoing the mud pit in the woods. I ordered a pond liner for it so I could keep it from drying out so much. When the pond liner arrived, I dug out all of the existing mud, piled it up, and put some in the 110 gallon water tank I use for these projects. I didn&#8217;t get any video or take any photos of the digging process because it was pretty boring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once I had the pond liner in the empty hole, it was time to start filling it back with mud. The mud I took out was pretty mostly a pile of wet clumps of dirt. I had to add water and vigorously stir the water into the thick, clumped up dirt. I also added some more organic matter with the goal of making the sandy mud more like my swamp mud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/2020-10_mud-mixing540p.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When it was time to mix the mud in the water tank, I decided to have some fun with it, and I started shooting some video to document the process. The following video was shot on 3 separate days, as I was working on refilling the pit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been completely redoing the mud pit in the woods. I ordered a pond liner for it so I could keep it from drying out so much. When the pond liner arrived, I dug out all of the existing mud, piled it up, and put some in the 110 gallon water tank I use for &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=5101\">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":[29,53,11,17],"tags":[73,139],"class_list":["post-5101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mud-pit","category-production-issues","category-teasertrailers","category-the-back-yard","tag-free-video","tag-mixing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5101","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=5101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5105,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5101\/revisions\/5105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}