{"id":18292,"date":"2017-08-20T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=18292"},"modified":"2023-09-05T12:35:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T19:35:45","slug":"eclipse-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2017\/08\/eclipse-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Eclipse day -1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/60035031@N06\/36563083241\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Sunlight, moss, and a bed of clover\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/36563083241_ea075b4220_h.jpg\" width=\"1024\" alt=\"Sunlight, moss, and a bed of clover\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We hiked around on Marys Peak today. Most people were just heading to the summit, which was rather unspectacular, IMO, and then heading back to their cars and taking off. The view from the summit would be far more spectacular at sunrise, sunset, or on an extremely clear day. Today things were a bit hazy and the overhead sunlight washed everything out. So a runner we talked to recommended the Meadow Edge Trail. This trail was extraordinary. As we walked in an old growth Noble Fir forest the sunlight came squeezing through just enough to make the clover-covered ground look amazing. This was probably my second favorite trail (after <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2011\/03\/stout-grove\/>Stout Grove<\/a> in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park) that didn&#8217;t include real &#8220;views&#8221; or a lake at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hiked around on Marys Peak today. Most people were just heading to the summit, which was rather unspectacular, IMO, and then heading back to their cars and taking off. The view from the summit would be far more spectacular at sunrise, sunset, or on an extremely clear day. Today things were a bit hazy [&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":[6,670,276,231,326],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18292"}],"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=18292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30237,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18292\/revisions\/30237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}