{"id":945,"date":"2010-06-09T08:54:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T15:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/?p=945"},"modified":"2010-06-09T08:54:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T15:54:25","slug":"hiking-welch-mountain-with-sam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/?p=945","title":{"rendered":"Hiking Welch Mountain with Sam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam and I hike up Welch Mountain every week or so during the summer.  It&#8217;s just a couple miles down the road to the trailhead. We have lunch and sit on the ledge.  Every time we go, Sam walks a bit more of it himself and then when I get him in the backpack he often falls asleep. <\/p>\n<p>The opening wood cut of Welch Mountain was done by Herb Waters, who lived about a mile from Welch. I did a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhpr.org\/node\/15991\">story on Herb for NHPR<\/a> a little while back.  <\/p>\n<p>The music is just simple improv&#8217;d piano.  On the previous couple videos I did with Sam (Sam Sleds and the Missing Yaktrax) some people thought the music was a little too sad sounding.  It&#8217;s not sad on purpose and I think it&#8217;s more in tune with the idea of how transitory everything is.<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/00733E_pswE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/00733E_pswE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The video was shot with a Creative Vado. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam and I hike up Welch Mountain every week or so during the summer. It&#8217;s just a couple miles down the road to the trailhead. We have lunch and sit on the ledge. Every time we go, Sam walks a bit more of it himself and then when I get him in the backpack he &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/?p=945\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hiking Welch Mountain with Sam<\/span>Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,35],"tags":[202,203,82,8,108,1069,1070,4,1068,103,201,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}