{"id":18753,"date":"2019-08-15T19:43:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T19:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=18753"},"modified":"2019-08-15T19:43:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T19:43:42","slug":"swamp-postcard-the-miasma-of-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/swamp-postcard-the-miasma-of-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Swamp Postcard: The Miasma of August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The heat and humidity linger as September looms, but there was actually a hint of chill in the air when the roosters next door started to get going a little before five.<\/p>\n<p>I like it. There is no possible way to roll over and tap the rooster on the head and go back to sleep. Oh well- the new crop of lambs were separated from their mom&#8217;s over the weekend, and the blessings of disappointment were as loud as human babes.<\/p>\n<p>The heat and humidity brings a powerful earthy smell, just like The Swamp. Not unpleasant, just rich enough to recognize the process of entropy.<\/p>\n<p>The farm is good for that- a little distance from the malodorous waters of the Potomac. There was a lot of malodor over the weekend. Having a wonderful time, though. Wish you were here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Vic<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/swamp081519.jpg\" alt=\"swamp081519\" width=\"814\" height=\"486\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/swamp081519.jpg 814w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/swamp081519-600x358.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/swamp081519-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/swamp081519-768x459.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/swamp081519-471x281.jpg 471w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 814px) 100vw, 814px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2019 Vic Socotra<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heat and humidity linger as September looms, but there was actually a hint of chill in the air when the roosters next door started to get going a little before five. I like it. There is no possible way to roll over and tap the rooster on the head and go back to sleep. [&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-18753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-socotra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18753","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=18753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18755,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18753\/revisions\/18755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}