{"id":2073,"date":"2010-12-12T16:26:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T00:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2010-12-12T14:56:33","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T22:56:33","slug":"tupelo-in-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2010\/12\/12\/tupelo-in-the-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Tupelo in the Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s snowing.  The day started at a balmy 38&deg;F and has dropped since &#8211; the moment it hit 32&deg;F snow started flying horizontally in the brisk wind.  While this hasn&#8217;t stopped the exploration along the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/natr\/\">Natchez Trace Parkway<\/a>, it has forced the appearance of a very scratchy wool hat that I bought many years ago from an tiny Indian woman in Ecuador; I love this hat, but the wool combined with the lack of recent haircuts have led to much head-scratching.<\/p>\n<p>After waking up at six I got back on the parkway, and alternated driving, hiking, and stopping to read about early American and Indian history along the way.  Thus far I&#8217;ve stopped at three different Indian <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mound_builder_%28people%29\">mound sites<\/a>, three different swamp hikes, and too many nature walks and early settlement sites to count.  Overall the Natchez Trace has proven to be a great find, and one that I could recommend to anyone who likes history and nature.  Other notable sights have included a tree that was filled with at least thirty vultures, a giant <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pileated_Woodpecker\">pileated woodpecker<\/a>, turkeys, hawks, deer, and even one owl who visited my campsite last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s snowing. The day started at a balmy 38&deg;F and has dropped since &#8211; the moment it hit 32&deg;F snow started flying horizontally in the brisk wind. While this hasn&#8217;t stopped the exploration along the Natchez Trace Parkway, it has forced the appearance of a very scratchy wool hat that I bought many years ago &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2010\/12\/12\/tupelo-in-the-snow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tupelo in the Snow&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-banjo-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/2080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}