{"id":5847,"date":"2022-08-25T22:32:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T02:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=5847"},"modified":"2022-08-25T22:32:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T02:32:01","slug":"building-bridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=5847","title":{"rendered":"Building Bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"972\" height=\"648\" src=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-25_bridge-crossing.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-25_bridge-crossing.jpg 972w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-25_bridge-crossing-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-25_bridge-crossing-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-25_bridge-crossing-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 972px) 100vw, 972px\" \/><figcaption>Still trying to salvage the old 4&#215;4 beam I found in the swamp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I got off to a late start, again today. I&#8217;ve just been busy and some of my swamp trips (including the one I took, today) take 4+ hours and leave me totally exhausted. Today&#8217;s trip was special, in that I took some scrap lumber and tools with me to mend my broken &#8220;bridge&#8221;. That didn&#8217;t work out well. I&#8217;ll need to rebuild the bridge from new materials, because the mended version still wasn&#8217;t strong enough to support my weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I paddled my boat over 6 miles (10 km), spent about 2 hours working on my bridge and shooting some video. By the time I got home it was getting dark. I fed and walked my dog, cleaned up my muddy gear and got something to eat, after which I was pretty much done for the day. Some days, I&#8217;d stay up late, selecting and editing some frames from the video, editing, compressing and uploading a short vlog clip, and writing a blog entry, but today I&#8217;m just writing a blog entry with one image (much faster).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got off to a late start, again today. I&#8217;ve just been busy and some of my swamp trips (including the one I took, today) take 4+ hours and leave me totally exhausted. Today&#8217;s trip was special, in that I took some scrap lumber and tools with me to mend my broken &#8220;bridge&#8221;. That didn&#8217;t &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=5847\">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":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5847","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=5847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5850,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5847\/revisions\/5850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}