{"id":3802,"date":"2015-06-19T17:50:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T00:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3802"},"modified":"2015-06-19T17:50:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T00:50:45","slug":"refresher-course-ketchikan-alaska-06162015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3802","title":{"rendered":"Refresher Course \u2013 Ketchikan, Alaska \u2013 [06\/16\/2015]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ed645da649cac71f4205cf15b9de83e5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3803\" src=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ed645da649cac71f4205cf15b9de83e5.jpg\" alt=\"ed645da649cac71f4205cf15b9de83e5\" width=\"338\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ed645da649cac71f4205cf15b9de83e5.jpg 236w, https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ed645da649cac71f4205cf15b9de83e5-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/a>Alaska is just a beautiful as I remember\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It is also\u2026just as wet.<\/p>\n<p>One thing people often forget about Alaska: it\u2019s a temperate rain forest. Which means it rains \u2013 a lot. Crew members often giggle when faced with comments about how disappointing the weather in this area is; I ask you what did you expect when you booked a cruise to a rain forest?<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for me, I like the rain. And at this time of the year it\u2019s not really rain, it\u2019s more of a heavy mist. So I\u2019m perfectly content to slosh my way about town, reacquainting myself with the various souvenir and candy shops\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Definitely with the candy shops\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Damp or not, I can feel the freshness of the air soaking into me. Much as I sometimes dread Alaska \u2013 and the things it sometimes brings me \u2013 I am aware that I need it on occasion. It clears out the cobwebs, and there have been rather a lot of cobwebs in my head recently. Possibly put there by the basic nature of having a routine, but also due to a lot of other things.<\/p>\n<p>And clearing those? It feels really good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska is just a beautiful as I remember\u2026 It is also\u2026just as wet. One thing people often forget about Alaska: it\u2019s a temperate rain forest. Which means it rains \u2013 a lot. Crew members often giggle when faced with comments &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3802\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,4,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska","category-below-the-waterline","category-northern-exposure-2015"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-Zk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3804,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions\/3804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}