{"id":2270,"date":"2013-07-23T09:09:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T17:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/?p=2270"},"modified":"2013-07-23T09:09:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T17:09:29","slug":"hasta-la-vista-icy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/archives\/2270","title":{"rendered":"Hasta la Vista Icy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harry held rapt by something in the water:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

BIGGER<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Minutes later, down the beach away, I saw people swimming in the ocean. Big deal you say? Let me remind you that even with the unusually warm summer temperatures we’re experiencing this year — with no end in sight — the water in Alaska is cold. My estimate of the temperature in Resurrection Bay is ~45 degrees, possibly warmer<\/a>, but even so cold enough to turn one blue after ten minutes or so.<\/p>\n

I took Otis for a ride to Exit Glacier, aptly named since it’s nearly outta here. At the site of this photo 115 years ago I could have leaned Otis against the glacier’s head wall:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

BIGGER<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cool glacier; cool outwash plain; cool Fireweed; cool bike; not so cool out-of-shape, aging white dude:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

BIGGER<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harry held rapt by something in the water: BIGGER. Minutes later, down the beach away, I saw people swimming in the ocean. Big deal you say? Let me remind you that even with the unusually warm summer temperatures we’re experiencing this year — with no end in sight — the water in Alaska is cold. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2274,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions\/2274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}