{"id":6,"date":"2010-07-06T21:14:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T01:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2010-07-08T00:09:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T04:09:36","slug":"somebodys-gotta-start-this-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Morning Hike &#8211; Slough Creek Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only a few weeks after our Yellowstone trip (<em>more details later<\/em>), and I miss it so much.\u00a0 One of my favorite hikes was Slough Creek Trail (pronounced &#8220;Slew&#8221; Creek).\u00a0 It was the final hike of our trip, and it provided the perfect crescendo.\u00a0 We hiked around 3 miles into the trail and 3 miles back.\u00a0 Spring flowers were finally starting to appear, scattered among the hillsides between fir forests en route to McBride Lake.\u00a0 The weather was beautiful, but with a dabble of rain drops here and there (apparent in the audio for sure).\u00a0 The slight breeze surely made shooting flowers a challenge!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_71\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-71\" title=\"Morning Flowers at Slough Creek\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/YNP10_08201-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/YNP10_08201-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/YNP10_08201.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-71\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;The sun is but a morning starburst.&quot;  ~ Henry David Thoreau<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"audioplayer_container\"><span style=\"display:block;padding:5px;border:1px solid #dddddd;background:#f8f8f8\" id=\"audioplayer_1\">Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&amp;promoid=BIOW\" title=\"Download Adobe Flash Player\">here<\/a>. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">AudioPlayer.embed(\"audioplayer_1\", {soundFile:\"aHR0cDovL21hcmtzaXNjby5jb20vbXAzL0JpcmRzIFJhaW5kcm9wcyBTbG91Z2ggQ3JlZWszLm1wMw\"});<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only a few weeks after our Yellowstone trip (more details later), and I miss it so much.\u00a0 One of my favorite hikes was Slough Creek Trail (pronounced &#8220;Slew&#8221; Creek).\u00a0 It was the final hike of our trip, and it provided the perfect crescendo.\u00a0 We hiked around 3 miles into the trail and 3 miles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}