{"id":136,"date":"2008-05-02T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=136"},"modified":"2008-05-02T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T20:14:00","slug":"ultima-thule-thats-where","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Ultima Thule, That&#8217;s Where."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is May 2nd.  The middle of Spring.  Two days ago, where I am now, it was 27\u00b0C.  This is the most sheltered side of my cabin:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/killifish-746758.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/killifish-746755.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>This is the approach to my cabin:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/highway-783591.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/highway-783587.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>I have no exact numbers for you, but I can tell you that wind speed is strong enough to make the road&#8217;s runoff flow <i>directly uphill<\/i> (at least in those sheltered little gulleys where the run-off hasn&#8217;t simply frozen into two-lane Hieronymous Bosch frescoes on the spot).  There are pelicans on the lake in front of me; at least, there were a couple of hours ago, before the viz declined so precipitously (get it?) that I could no longer see more than two meters offshore.  Perhaps by now they are only Pelsicles.<\/p>\n<p>Riddle me this:  Where am I?<\/p>\n<p>More to the point, what am I doing here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is May 2nd. The middle of Spring. Two days ago, where I am now, it was 27\u00b0C. This is the most sheltered side of my cabin: This is the approach to my cabin: I have no exact numbers for you, but I can tell you that wind speed is strong enough to make the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-writing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}