{"id":13297,"date":"2016-06-25T21:57:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T21:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=13297"},"modified":"2016-06-25T21:57:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T21:57:13","slug":"assault-on-the-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/assault-on-the-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Assault on the Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is short and sweet this morning, since I have to leave to pick up Jon Without in a few minutes to join Louie the Coastie and prepare to row across the Potomac, beach the gig, clamber out of the mighty brown river and identify and document the last remaining Stone of the District we have not touched, fabled SE9.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what we intend to do: <\/p>\n<p>Target:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/062516-stone1.jpg\" alt=\"062516-stone1\" width=\"500\" height=\"534\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/062516-stone1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/062516-stone1-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/062516-stone1-263x281.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/062516-stone2.jpg\" alt=\"062516-stone2\" width=\"500\" height=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/062516-stone2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/062516-stone2-268x300.jpg 268w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/062516-stone2-251x281.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tried the walking route with Argo and it did not work. We also tried amphibious assault in a kayak, launched from National Harbor, which was scary as shit and far wetter than anticipated. Those factors forced a strategic withdrawal prior to mission success. <\/p>\n<p>So, this time it is a multi-person boat, with crew, and here is what we have to cross to get there:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/062516-2.jpg\" alt=\"062516-2\" width=\"500\" height=\"295\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/062516-2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/062516-2-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/062516-2-476x281.jpg 476w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here is the final planning imagery for the landing party:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/062516-3.jpg\" alt=\"062516-3\" width=\"500\" height=\"461\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/062516-3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/062516-3-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/062516-3-305x281.jpg 305w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wish us luck. And double plastic bags for the camera!<\/p>\n<p>There is some other crap going on here, too, but that is a topic for another day.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2016 Vic Socotra<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is short and sweet this morning, since I have to leave to pick up Jon Without in a few minutes to join Louie the Coastie and prepare to row across the Potomac, beach the gig, clamber out of the mighty brown river and identify and document the last remaining Stone of the District we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-socotra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13302,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13297\/revisions\/13302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}