{"id":27269,"date":"2025-04-29T22:28:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=27269"},"modified":"2025-04-29T22:28:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:28:59","slug":"log_045_river_gorge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2025\/04\/29\/log_045_river_gorge\/","title":{"rendered":"LOG_045_RIVER_GORGE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"616\" src=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/gorge-skiff-1-1024x616.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/gorge-skiff-1-1024x616.png 1024w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/gorge-skiff-1-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/gorge-skiff-1-768x462.png 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/gorge-skiff-1.png 1351w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The skiff drifts into the cool embrace of the canyon&#8217;s hands, a brief reprieve from the relentless light. Air knife-sharp, tongues cleaving to the roofs of mouths for want of a drink, dizzying heat rippling over the surface. The river a shining ribbon of deceit: here, the salinity is so high such that only halophiles can thrive in its waters. Open your mouth and feel the salt crystallize on your teeth; open your ears and hear nothing but wind whistling through winding walls worn down by time. Close your eyes and see the living-red heart-pulse of your eyelids, overexposed, reflecting sandstone and limestone and the rich red of iron, the pale shells of creatures long gone ground into dust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The skiff drifts into the cool embrace of the canyon&#8217;s hands, a brief reprieve from the relentless light. Air knife-sharp, tongues cleaving to the roofs of mouths for want of a drink, dizzying heat rippling over the surface. The river a shining ribbon of deceit: here, the salinity is so high such that only halophiles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2249,"featured_media":23643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[776,1257,1381,1756],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27273,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27269\/revisions\/27273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}