{"id":107341,"date":"2022-06-25T10:03:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107341"},"modified":"2022-06-25T10:03:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:03:44","slug":"107341","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/107341\/","title":{"rendered":"The Headwaters of Hawksbill Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Headwaters of Hawksbill Creek<\/h4>\n

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The creek, hidden in a low valley high in the Shenandoah Valley,<\/h4>\n

Is a place of seclusion and ambiance made especially for me.<\/h4>\n

I watch the hikers clad in t-shirts, shorts, suntan lotion, and sunglasses<\/h4>\n

Amble up the well-worn trail to the summit of Hawksbill Mountain<\/h4>\n

While my fishing gear and I bushwhack our way down to the secret spring.<\/h4>\n

The journey, filled with thorns and pickers not to mention a few slips and falls,<\/h4>\n

Was well worth any discomfort for both the silence and beauty are immense.<\/h4>\n

Slowly, I step into the cool, crystalline water and watch it move around my feet.<\/h4>\n

As I tie a Mr. Rapidan Dry size 16 on the line of my fly rod and adjust my<\/h4>\n

polarized sunglasses waiting for my eyes to adjust to the shade,<\/h4>\n

I watch the water and soon spot a Brooke trout calling my name.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Headwaters of Hawksbill Creek The creek, hidden in a low valley high in the Shenandoah Valley, Is a place of seclusion and ambiance made especially for me. I watch the hikers clad in t-shirts, shorts, suntan lotion, and sunglasses Amble up the well-worn trail…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1448,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107431,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107341\/revisions\/107431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}