{"id":13583,"date":"2015-08-06T18:52:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T01:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=13583"},"modified":"2020-10-13T12:06:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T19:06:12","slug":"blossom-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2015\/08\/blossom-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Blossom Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13584\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/157_3544-RAW-rogue-river-blossom-bar.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13584\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/157_3544-RAW-rogue-river-blossom-bar.jpg\" alt=\"rogue river blossom bar\" width=\"1024\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rogue River&#8217;s Blossom Bar<\/p><\/div>\n<p>#mynwrcphoto @NWRafting<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s photo features our trip leader, Dustin of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwrafting.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Northwest Rafting Co.<\/a>, taking a duckie (AKA single-person raft) down the river&#8217;s most difficult rapid. On average, more than one person a year dies in these rapids. We all made it through without even capsizing. However, only the guides rode the single-person rafts down. The private group after us wasn&#8217;t so lucky. They were all OK though.<\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time, Blossom Bar was impassable. Glen Wooldridge made Blossom Bar passable in the 20th Century by using strategically placed charges of dynamite. He would row up to a rock, drop dynamite onto the other side of the rock, and then quickly row away. He repeated this process until Blossom Bar became configured the way it is today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#mynwrcphoto @NWRafting Today&#8217;s photo features our trip leader, Dustin of Northwest Rafting Co., taking a duckie (AKA single-person raft) down the river&#8217;s most difficult rapid. On average, more than one person a year dies in these rapids. We all made it through without even capsizing. However, only the guides rode the single-person rafts down. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,87],"tags":[231,326,179],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24318,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583\/revisions\/24318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}