{"id":6829,"date":"2026-07-10T09:12:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=6829"},"modified":"2026-07-10T10:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:30:43","slug":"white-river-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2026\/07\/10\/white-river-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"White River Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breakfast is over. We have no place to be. We gave ourselves three luxurious nights beside the White River this year &#8212; <em>the journey is the journey<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The morning fog is gone. Boats of fishermen labor up river against the swift current and then drift swiftly back. The water level is up &mdash; the corps must have scheduled a release this morning. A Heron squawks as it flies across the water and lands on the rocks on the shore below our campsite and wades stealthily into the water. Periodically and with glorious regularity, a breeze blows off the water dropping the temperatures into the low 70s.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;How is this even possible?&rdquo; Trudy marvels.<\/p>\n<p>Izzy concurs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jumpingfish.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2026\/07\/i-zqk8FsG\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Izzy's opinion\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2026\/07\/i-zqk8FsG\/0\/KQQVnVGgQJCnDQ9sLNVBkfKHXfjtwhpRgXMdrpCgM\/XL\/IMG_4790-XL.jpg\" alt=\"Izzy napping with the river in the background\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breakfast is over. We have no place to be. We gave ourselves three luxurious nights beside the White River this year &#8212; the journey is the journey. The morning fog is gone. Boats of fishermen labor up river against the swift current and then drift swiftly back. The water level is up &mdash; the corps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6831,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829\/revisions\/6831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}