{"id":5818,"date":"2022-08-05T21:40:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T01:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=5818"},"modified":"2022-08-13T10:03:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T14:03:22","slug":"the-new-guys-first-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=5818","title":{"rendered":"The New Guy&#8217;s First Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-05_new-guy-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-05_new-guy-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-05_new-guy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-05_new-guy-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-05_new-guy-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-05_new-guy-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-05_new-guy-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-05_new-guy-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I finally got to meet the new guy and take him to one of my favorite spots to get immersed in some smooth, slippery, treacherous, swamp mud. Apparently it&#8217;s also physically demanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-05_muddy-body-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-05_muddy-body-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5821\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-05_muddy-body-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-05_muddy-body-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-05_muddy-body-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-05_muddy-body-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-05_muddy-body-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-05_muddy-body-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"clear: left;\">I shot very little video, because I planned to just show the new guy around for a while, and forego the video documentation. I can&#8217;t show new guy&#8217;s face, so it would have been difficult to record a travel blog and not had a video mishap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I type this, I&#8217;m getting ready to record another podcast with Rebecca from DinksWitKinks, so I can&#8217;t get too wordy. We had a good time today. The weather got a little weird for a moment or two (it started raining in full sunshine &#8230; kind of unexpected). Otherwise, we had a really nice low tide that lasted long enough for us to get more than enough sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-05_crotch2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-05_crotch2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-05_crotch2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-05_crotch2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-05_crotch2-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-05_crotch2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-05_crotch2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-05_crotch2-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On the way out, there was a fisherman right by where we enter the creek from the mudding spot. We just had to clean up enough that we weren&#8217;t too conspicuous. I&#8217;m sure we looked a little curious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have to go, for now. I&#8217;ll try to catch up with you all soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got to meet the new guy and take him to one of my favorite spots to get immersed in some smooth, slippery, treacherous, swamp mud. Apparently it&#8217;s also physically demanding. I shot very little video, because I planned to just show the new guy around for a while, and forego the video documentation. &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=5818\">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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mudding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818","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=5818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5838,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions\/5838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}