{"id":1192,"date":"2021-09-01T08:16:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T16:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2021-09-01T08:16:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T16:16:14","slug":"1144-morning-canoeing-at-big-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=1192","title":{"rendered":"1144. Morning Canoeing at Big River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/1144.-Morning-Canoeing-at-Big-River_blog.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/1144.-Morning-Canoeing-at-Big-River_blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1193\" class=\"wp-image-1193\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariko-irie.com\/morningcanoeingbigr.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.mariko-irie.com\/morningcanoeingbigr.html\">&#8220;1144. Morning Canoeing at Big River&#8221; Oil painting by Mariko Irie<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This location is Big River in Mendocino CA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One morning, I was driving to our gallery, Northcoast Artists Gallery in Fort Bragg CA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was sunny, not much wind, waves were calm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Suddenly I wanted to get off Hwy.1 and get down to the Big River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was right, some people are enjoying canoeing on the river,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have never done canoeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I love the idea,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sitting level of a canoe is very close to the surface of the river: imagine sitting on water with a low eye level making the world feel bigger.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Just paddling, no motor so it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pollute water nor disturb creatures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m so lazy to paddle, riding electric motor boat is perfect for me.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The eye level was just like sitting in a canoe, droving slowly to not disturb creatures to enjoy River Otters, Blue Herons and others\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 affairs. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Manner of canoeing is so peaceful and beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This location is Big River in Mendocino CA. One morning, I was driving to our gallery, Northcoast Artists Gallery in Fort Bragg CA. It was sunny, not much wind, waves were calm. Suddenly I wanted to get off Hwy.1 and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=1192\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17,58],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paintings-watercolor-oil","tag-big-river-ca","tag-mendocino-ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}