{"id":1936,"date":"2008-04-25T13:30:54","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T18:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=1936"},"modified":"2008-04-25T12:56:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T17:56:01","slug":"mississippi-river-finally-receding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/25\/mississippi-river-finally-receding\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi River finally receding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I took this picture of the Mississippi River from a third-story window in the Falls Building:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/river.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1937\" title=\"river\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/river.jpg?resize=500%2C264\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/river.jpg?w=1712 1712w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/river.jpg?resize=300%2C158 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Mud Island with the Mud Island logo in the background.\u00a0 You can see that at its highest point, the river almost completely covered the top of the word &#8220;MUD,&#8221; but has since gone down to the point that almost all of &#8220;ISLAND&#8221; is now visible.\u00a0 That means it&#8217;s dropped at least a couple of feet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/memphis\/stories\/2008\/04\/21\/daily33.html?ana=from_rss\">Here&#8217;s a Memphis Business Journal article on the receding waters.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I took this picture of the Mississippi River from a third-story window in the Falls Building: That&#8217;s Mud Island with the Mud Island logo in the background.\u00a0 You can see that at its highest point, the river almost completely covered the top of the word &#8220;MUD,&#8221; but has since gone down to the point &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/25\/mississippi-river-finally-receding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mississippi River finally receding&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->