{"id":5576,"date":"2021-12-30T12:47:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=5576"},"modified":"2021-12-30T12:47:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:47:50","slug":"late-season-visit-to-the-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=5576","title":{"rendered":"Late Season Visit to the Swamp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I packed my gear and wriggled into a half-body wetsuit over a tight Speedo for a really late season trip into the swamp. The weather has been very mild (warm) for late December. It hasn&#8217;t even been cold at night. I split my trip into 3 short videos and I encoded them in low quality so I could post them here. If you really like something you see, I might be able to get you a copy of the full 1080p version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first chapter of my vlog, you&#8217;ll see me wandering in my wetsuit and diving boots. I get bogged down a couple of times in the sticky mud. The boots make it a lot harder to extract my feet from the mud. This clip was encoded with lower quality than the others because it is the longest one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021-12-29_slog480p.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the next chapter, I stripped off my clothes and put on some tiny PVC briefs for a quick sink. Of course the mud was pretty cool (not icy cold), but that wasn&#8217;t the only reason for keeping the sink short. Going from cold mud to cold water (cleanup), I can get hypothermic and it can be pretty hard to get warmed up this time of year. Anyway, I got muddy and I got some closeups of my muddy PVC, for those of you who like that stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021-12-29_sink480p.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the final chapter, I get cleaned up and wriggle back into my Speedo and wetsuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021-12-29_cleanup480p.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I packed my gear and wriggled into a half-body wetsuit over a tight Speedo for a really late season trip into the swamp. The weather has been very mild (warm) for late December. It hasn&#8217;t even been cold at night. I split my trip into 3 short videos and I encoded them in low quality &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=5576\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[85,159,73,160,96,83,114],"class_list":["post-5576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploring","category-mudding","tag-blog","tag-diving-boots","tag-free-video","tag-neoprene","tag-pvc","tag-vlog","tag-wetsuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576","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=5576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5580,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions\/5580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}