{"id":105,"date":"2009-04-05T07:13:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T11:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2018-04-07T16:48:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T20:48:34","slug":"thayer-thaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/05\/thayer-thaws\/","title":{"rendered":"Thayer Thaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s become somewhat of a tradition for me to drag a kayak onto Thayer Lake when the ice had just begun to melt.\u00a0 The lake has a different personality when it&#8217;s still half covered with ice.\u00a0 The water has a cold gray darkness.\u00a0 The surrounding trees are still without leaves.\u00a0 Not surprisingly, I tend to have the entire lake to myself when it&#8217;s only half-thawed.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, I saw an opportunity to take some pictures, so I headed out onto the lake on April 5, just a few days after the ice cleared from the south end of Thayer Lake.\u00a0 When the water is only 35 degrees, one tends to take extra care not to tip the kayak.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-105 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/wwwIMG_1372.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/wwwIMG_1372-200x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-106\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-106'>\n\t\t\t\tKayaking around the ice facing south on Thayer Lake\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/wwwIMG_1364.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/wwwIMG_1364-200x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-108\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-108'>\n\t\t\t\tIce still covers the north end of Thayer Lake\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/wwwIMG_1356.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/wwwIMG_1356-200x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-107\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-107'>\n\t\t\t\tA pair of swans in front of the house\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s become somewhat of a tradition for me to drag a kayak onto Thayer Lake when the ice had just begun to melt.\u00a0 The lake has a different personality when &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upnorth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4297,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/4297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}