{"id":606,"date":"2007-04-03T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.deadsquid.com\/?p=606"},"modified":"2007-04-03T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-03T15:02:00","slug":"holdout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2007\/04\/03\/holdout\/","title":{"rendered":"holdout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/deadsquid\/441307080\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/189\/441307080_b0f82a94eb_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 1px solid #e1d6c6 !important; padding:3px !important\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>on saturday I stopped by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.community-media.com\/resoundings\/HogsBackPrologue.html\">hogs back falls<\/a> to see how the high water was treating them. they look just a little different from when the falls are at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rideau-info.com\/canal\/img-hogsback1.html\">low water<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>it was about 10 degrees and sunny with very few clouds and a gorgeous blue sky. with the arrival of spring, there were a bunch of people out for a stroll and some <a href=http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/deadsquid\/441309327\/\">taking of pictures<\/a>. I took a few pics as well, and this one was my fave. there&#8217;s just a bit of snow holding on, and the spray from the water cascading over the rocks has frozen and clung to the trees\/scrub in a <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photo_zoom.gne?id=441306990&#038;size=l\">few places<\/a>. this is pretty much the last bit of evidence of winter I saw this weekend, all the piles of snow around the neighbourhood are gone.<\/p>\n<p>the power behind all that water is mesmerizing, and it was nice to just zone out for a while and watch it flow by. if you&#8217;re in ottawa and have a chance, stop by for a look-see, it&#8217;s really an amazing bit of beauty in the middle of the city. it&#8217;s nice in the summer, but it&#8217;s best now (in my opinion). just remember to <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/deadsquid\/441309639\/\">pick up after yourself<\/a>&#8230; please.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>on saturday I stopped by hogs back falls to see how the high water was treating them. they look just a little different from when the falls are at low water. it was about 10 degrees and sunny with very few clouds and a gorgeous blue sky. with the arrival of spring, there were a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}