{"id":651,"date":"2017-11-27T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T05:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirabug.com\/?p=651"},"modified":"2017-12-12T22:37:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T03:37:20","slug":"day-88-wet-and-sandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/day-88-wet-and-sandy\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 88: Wet and sandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 88:<\/p>\n<p>Most of the riverbed was sand. The current&#8217;s not fast, but it &#8216;s not something I want to have to swim across constantly either. Plus, should I spot a town on the other side (which is what I&#8217;m hoping for), I&#8217;ll need a way to get Stupid across.<\/p>\n<p>So the sand needs to be dealt with, and that means removing it as much as possible and getting to the bedrock below it. That&#8217;s not too much of a challenge &#8211; I&#8217;ve gotten pretty good at mining sand out of the water near my home base &#8211; but since there are trees all around, it&#8217;s harder to stay warm in the water than when the sun&#8217;s beating on me relentlessly.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, found some bedrock, so now I can build up from there and have a slightly more stable bridge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/One-Among-The-Dead-88.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-689\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/One-Among-The-Dead-88.png?resize=525%2C394&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sketch of the riverbed. Tree on the left, river in the middle, thick sand under the river, tree on the right. \" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/One-Among-The-Dead-88.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/One-Among-The-Dead-88.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/One-Among-The-Dead-88.png?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/One-Among-The-Dead-88.png?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 88: Most of the riverbed was sand. The current&#8217;s not fast, but it &#8216;s not something I want to have to swim across constantly either. Plus, should I spot a town on the other side (which is what I&#8217;m hoping for), I&#8217;ll need a way to get Stupid across. So the sand needs to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/day-88-wet-and-sandy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 88: Wet and sandy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-among-the-dead"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdUhYo-av","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}