{"id":5164,"date":"2021-03-07T23:01:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T03:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=5164"},"modified":"2021-03-07T23:02:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T03:02:16","slug":"early-season-swamp-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=5164","title":{"rendered":"Early Season Swamp Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-07_swamp2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-07_swamp2-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-07_swamp2-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-07_swamp2-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-07_swamp2-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-07_swamp2-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-07_swamp2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It was about 13C (55F) today with a chilling breeze. I really didn&#8217;t plan to get muddy, but I wanted to get out on the water for a paddle, at least. The fact that the tide was low just meant I would be able to visually inspect some of my favorite spots along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As it turned out, I stripped out of my warm clothes and waded around in some mud that I knew wasn&#8217;t super deep. I figured if I didn&#8217;t get too deep into the mud, cleaning up wouldn&#8217;t be too much of a chill. The warm sun actually made the entire adventure pleasant when I was fully dressed and quite bearable when I was mostly naked and wet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-07_swamp1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-07_swamp1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-07_swamp1-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-07_swamp1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-07_swamp1-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-07_swamp1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-07_swamp1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I shot both video and some stills. I had a new microphone and wind-screen I had to test, and today the wind was blowing hard enough to give the combination a real world test. I plan to post a 5 minute video in my clip store, but it&#8217;s going to be pretty lame for a sinking video, since I only sank up to my crotch and most of the time the mud wasn&#8217;t even that deep. The clip should be posted in the next day or two. I&#8217;d post it tonight, but I&#8217;m ready to call it a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was about 13C (55F) today with a chilling breeze. I really didn&#8217;t plan to get muddy, but I wanted to get out on the water for a paddle, at least. The fact that the tide was low just meant I would be able to visually inspect some of my favorite spots along the way. &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=5164\">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":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deepmud","category-exploring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164","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=5164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5168,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164\/revisions\/5168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}