{"id":795,"date":"2018-01-02T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T05:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirabug.com\/?p=795"},"modified":"2017-10-08T22:47:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T02:47:01","slug":"day-124-getting-back-into-the-swing-of-the-pickaxe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/day-124-getting-back-into-the-swing-of-the-pickaxe\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 124: getting back into the swing of the pickaxe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 124:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m finally starting to feel good enough to mine again, but the walk from the east entrance and back with all that stone is still pretty intense.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m mining a ravine nearby instead. It&#8217;s a little dangerous because the ravine runs between the ocean and the lake, and one wrong strike against a wall could bring the waters together, and me stuck in a cave below them.<\/p>\n<p>Even if I wasn&#8217;t facing imminent death, it&#8217;s a major breach of mining ethics to dump an ocean into a lake. That&#8217;s how you wreck an ecosystem, right there.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m hauling a lot of fill stone and gravel into the ravine to strengthen it. In some small ways I&#8217;m probably wrecking a caving system in the process, but compared to the damage that ocean could do to that lake&#8217;s freshwater fish population, I&#8217;ll take my chances.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_855\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-855\" style=\"width: 2732px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/One-Among-The-Dead-124.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-855\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/One-Among-The-Dead-124.png?resize=525%2C394&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"water color map of a lake on the left, an ocean on the right, and a dark grey section in the narrowest area between the two bodies of water representing the ravine. all else is green grass. \" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/One-Among-The-Dead-124.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/One-Among-The-Dead-124.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/One-Among-The-Dead-124.png?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/One-Among-The-Dead-124.png?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">takes a lot of gravel to fill a ravine this deep. fortunately, spare gravel is something i have plenty of.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 124: I&#8217;m finally starting to feel good enough to mine again, but the walk from the east entrance and back with all that stone is still pretty intense. I&#8217;m mining a ravine nearby instead. It&#8217;s a little dangerous because the ravine runs between the ocean and the lake, and one wrong strike against a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/day-124-getting-back-into-the-swing-of-the-pickaxe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 124: getting back into the swing of the pickaxe&#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-795","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-cP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","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=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}