{"id":27,"date":"2006-12-27T19:57:39","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T02:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=27"},"modified":"2013-12-14T12:46:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T17:46:41","slug":"merry-christmas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/merry-christmas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from Christmas with my family. I spent most of the time eating and puttering around, but I did also get to go for a couple of quad rides again. Here&#8217;s after pushing through from Trout Lake to Little Pickrel Lake (and the dog &#8220;Ruger&#8221; that followed me in my travels):<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/dsc00697.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/dsc00697.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"Little Pickrel\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and here&#8217;s after breaking trail along a power line from the Pickrel Lake road. You can see the main section of Trout Lake in the distance, and Blueberry Island and Trappers Bay in the foreground. It&#8217;s hard to tell, but for me to go about 50 feet further forward on the quad would take me about 100 feet down a steep rock face. This is as far as I could get:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/dsc00703.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/dsc00703.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"Power Line\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I broke a lot of trail in the hills behind my grandparents camp. Low gearing and a slow pace allows you to go <strong><em>almost<\/em><\/strong> anywhere (but you can still get into some tight spaces): \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/dsc00693.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/dsc00693.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"Almost Stuck\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from Christmas with my family. I spent most of the time eating and puttering around, but I did also get to go for a couple of quad rides again. Here&#8217;s after pushing through from Trout Lake <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/merry-christmas-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Merry Christmas!<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ptY4v-r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1056,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}