{"id":3052,"date":"2006-10-15T23:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T04:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:32:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:32:06","slug":"beside-big-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2006\/10\/15\/beside-big-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Beside the Big River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/627\/984\/1600\/IMG_0306.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/627\/984\/400\/IMG_0306.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>We&#8217;re camped beside the Mississippi at the Big River State Forest in Illinois.  This site is mostly deserted this time of year, but I like it that way.  I have fond memories of this place.  After the World Fantasy Convention in Minneapolis in 2002, we stopped here and camped.  In the back of my mind, I&#8217;ve considered that the starting point in Mary Ann&#8217;s serious nature photography.  She was shooting a consumer Olympus back then, but she took some wonderful photos of a Sun Pillar from this campground.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/627\/984\/1600\/PB071212.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/627\/984\/400\/PB071212.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>This is my photo, believe me hers was much better.  It&#8217;s hanging on our wall at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re camped beside the Mississippi at the Big River State Forest in Illinois. This site is mostly deserted this time of year, but I like it that way. I have fond memories of this place. After the World Fantasy Convention in Minneapolis in 2002, we stopped here and camped. In the back of my mind,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2006\/10\/15\/beside-big-river\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beside the Big River<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-Ne","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3053,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions\/3053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}