{"id":1919,"date":"2017-05-19T00:21:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T00:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2017-05-19T00:21:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T00:21:46","slug":"spring-in-port-townsend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1919","title":{"rendered":"Spring in Port Townsend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, Washington State added a second ferry to the Port Townsend&#8211;Whidbey Island route to handle the tourist load for the summer.<\/p>\n<p>I usually get here while the Brant (like a Canada goose) are still hanging out on that tiny gravel spit at Point Hudson.  It&#8217;s only about 100 birds, but the flock is reliable.  They packed up and left for the north the other day.  They won&#8217;t be seen again until Fall.<\/p>\n<p>The boatyard is looking empty now.  The Alaska fleet has left for the season.  The boatyard looks to me like it&#8217;s very underutilized: there&#8217;s a monstrous amount of empty space.<\/p>\n<p>And, this weekend is the signature civic PT summer festival, the Rhody Festival (parades, carnival, car show).  It&#8217;s unfortunate they schedule it this time of year given the weather, and the Rhodies are better in a couple of weeks. <\/p>\n<p>And sun is forecast for the next few days&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, Washington State added a second ferry to the Port Townsend&#8211;Whidbey Island route to handle the tourist load for the summer. I usually get here while the Brant (like a Canada goose) are still hanging out on that tiny gravel spit at Point Hudson. It&#8217;s only about 100 birds, but the flock is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1920,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions\/1920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}