{"id":989,"date":"2008-02-24T23:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=989"},"modified":"2008-02-24T23:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T23:53:00","slug":"a-mythical-creek-with-real-beavers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=989","title":{"rendered":"A Mythical Creek with Real Beavers"},"content":{"rendered":"


There is a new syncroblog “call” up on mythology and landscapes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I am just back from a Sunday afternoon dog walk, and here is the landscape: winter ice slowly melting above a beaver dam on Hardscrabble Creek.<\/p>\n

Mythology? I guess I feel sort of deficient in that area today. Spring, ice, stream, beavers — go for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a new syncroblog “call” up on mythology and landscapes. I am just back from a Sunday afternoon dog walk, and here is the landscape: winter ice slowly melting above a beaver dam on Hardscrabble Creek. Mythology? I guess I feel sort of deficient in that area today. Spring, ice, stream, beavers — go […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-fX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5843,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5843","url_meta":{"origin":989,"position":0},"title":"Yes, There Is a Hardscrabble Creek","author":"Chas S. 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