{"id":1523,"date":"2013-03-30T15:23:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T19:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2013-03-30T15:23:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T19:23:31","slug":"lake-erie-comes-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/lake-erie-comes-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Erie Comes Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Erie came alive this week; Spring is finally here. The first private boats were spotted&ndash;what a cheery sight! One brave soul was night fishing, his running lights moving slowly through the night. Soon boat lights will be as numerous as stars.<\/p>\n<p>I also saw the first commercial boat of the season.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1526\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1526\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/lake-erie-comes-alive\/largeship\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1526\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1526\" alt=\"Freighter on Lake Erie\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/largeShip.jpg?resize=400%2C508\" width=\"400\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/largeShip.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/largeShip.jpg?resize=236%2C300&amp;ssl=1 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freighter on Lake Erie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Erie came alive this week; Spring is finally here. The first private boats were spotted&ndash;what a cheery sight! One brave soul was night fishing, his running lights moving slowly through the night. Soon boat lights will be as numerous as stars. I also saw the first commercial boat of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cleveland","category-uncategorized","category-vermilion_oh"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1957,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/boating-season-underway-on-lake-erie\/","url_meta":{"origin":1523,"position":0},"title":"Boating Season Underway on Lake Erie","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"May 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Today was the first real day of the boating season. 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