{"id":96084,"date":"2021-06-26T19:59:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=96084"},"modified":"2021-06-26T19:59:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:59:35","slug":"ranger-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/ranger-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranger Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We gathered our backpack filled with<br \/>\nhand lenses, plant ID books, water and our favorite<br \/>\nsourdough, peanut butter, banana, and fruit spread sandwiches.<br \/>\nChanging into gumshoes for the expected wetlands trails<br \/>\nwe meet at a storefront near the trailhead before leaving<br \/>\ntogether for this early morning forest ranger guided tour of the flora.<br \/>\nWe encounter the common periwinkle, a lovely purplish ground cover flower,<br \/>\nconsidered an invasive, problematic species brought over from Europe during the 1700s.<br \/>\nWhite people who control the skyscrapers of power don&#8217;t write in bios<br \/>\ntheir role as an invasive species in this land. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We gathered our backpack filled with hand lenses, plant ID books, water and our favorite sourdough, peanut butter, banana, and fruit spread sandwiches. Changing into gumshoes for the expected wetlands trails we meet at a storefront near the trailhead before leaving together for this early&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96084","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\/778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96779,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96084\/revisions\/96779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}