{"id":285,"date":"2004-06-14T06:38:32","date_gmt":"2004-06-14T14:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=285"},"modified":"2004-06-14T06:38:32","modified_gmt":"2004-06-14T14:38:32","slug":"snaking-through-the-wetlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/06\/14\/snaking-through-the-wetlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Snaking Through the Wetlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt, Joe and Robby left our yard Sunday afternoon, blue canoe carried aloft, gunwales riding on their shoulders . Assuring me there was a stream but fifty yards down the railroad tracks, I laughed as they passed the bushes in front of our house bobbing down the sidewalk like a huge Portugese Man-of-War.  But water they found, and except for one flip of the canoe &#8211; a predictable result of one or all of the following: Matt jumping out, Joe jumping in, the attempt to paddle over a two foot dam- they made it to Daryl\u00c3\u00ads wet but happy. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"canoers_sm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/canoers_sm.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"222\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nThe return trip, but with Matt, Joe and Daryl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt, Joe and Robby left our yard Sunday afternoon, blue canoe carried aloft, gunwales riding on their shoulders . Assuring me there was a stream but fifty yards down the railroad tracks, I laughed as they passed the bushes in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/06\/14\/snaking-through-the-wetlands\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}