{"id":4166,"date":"2016-10-17T06:32:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T10:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=4166"},"modified":"2016-10-17T06:32:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T10:32:20","slug":"winding-down-the-marina-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/17\/winding-down-the-marina-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Winding down the marina season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_4167\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0928161830_HDR.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4167\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4167\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0928161830_HDR-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Early fall sunset on Lake Champlain\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0928161830_HDR-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0928161830_HDR-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0928161830_HDR-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0928161830_HDR-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0928161830_HDR-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early fall sunset on Lake Champlain<\/p><\/div>The marina closes October 15, but business has been very slow since Labor Day.  Once the kids are back in school the lake is used mostly by fishermen &#8211; and now duck hunters.  But very few pontoon rentals.  So a day at the marina consists of minor chores and hours of reading, doing Sudoku and surfing the &#8216;net.<\/p>\n<p>But there are still moments when the lake is beautiful.  When the wind dies down and the sun is low in the sky or a storm passes by and a rainbow appears&#8230; the beauty is nearly breathtaking.  At those times the job is not boring at all.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4168\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0918161751a.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4168\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4168\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0918161751a-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rainbow\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0918161751a-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0918161751a-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0918161751a-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0918161751a-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0918161751a-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rainbow<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4169\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0925161724_HDR.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4169\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4169\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0925161724_HDR-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The lonely gas dock\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0925161724_HDR-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0925161724_HDR-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0925161724_HDR-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0925161724_HDR-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0925161724_HDR-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lonely gas dock<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4172\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0907161829a.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4172\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4172\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0907161829a-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Fall sun\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0907161829a-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0907161829a-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0907161829a-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0907161829a-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0907161829a-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fall sun<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The marina closes October 15, but business has been very slow since Labor Day. Once the kids are back in school the lake is used mostly by fishermen &#8211; and now duck hunters. But very few pontoon rentals. So a day at the marina consists of minor chores and hours of reading, doing Sudoku and &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/17\/winding-down-the-marina-season\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,56,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places","category-vt","category-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-15c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4173,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions\/4173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}