{"id":10655,"date":"2013-08-30T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T22:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=10655"},"modified":"2013-08-16T17:31:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T03:31:12","slug":"postcard-from-alaska-awaiting-juneau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=10655","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from Alaska &#8211; Awaiting Juneau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_10656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10656\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=10656\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10656\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/CC79-97-09188-DM.jpg\" alt=\"Cruising\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10656\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A small cruise vessel enters Icy Straight en route to Glacier Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>On approach to Juneau we encountered something I had never experienced before, a delay in landing for something other than weather. Indeed, the weather was beautiful, not a cloud to be seen over the spectacular Alaska scenery for the last hundred miles as we flew along the coast.<\/p>\n<p>As we approached the city the pilot announced that another flight was in the way and we would have to wait before landing. As a result we circled a couple times over the entrance to Icy Straight and Swanson Harbor. I sat at the window enjoying the view as Deb slept on my shoulder. The water below looks wonderful, it is going to be tough to wait a day until we leave harbor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On approach to Juneau we encountered something I had never experienced before, a delay in landing for something other than weather. Indeed, the weather was beautiful, not a cloud to be seen over the spectacular Alaska scenery for the last hundred miles as we flew along the coast. As we approached the city the pilot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=10655\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Postcard from Alaska &#8211; Awaiting Juneau&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[403],"tags":[2107,620],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10658,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10655\/revisions\/10658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}