{"id":14,"date":"2008-08-25T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2009-02-17T12:43:14","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T17:43:14","slug":"otter-creek-badminton-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Otter Creek Badminton Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first annual OCBC was held on a warm and sunny Saturday afternoon, hosted by Menna and Kurgan.<br \/>\nThree teams played.<br \/>\nFirst game: Barbara and Nancy won, Zee and Dee lost.<br \/>\nSecond game: Darlene and John won, Barbara and Nancy lost and that was it. Since we did not have a clear winner, the Golden Birdie Award will remain with hosts Larry and Barbara. Badminton was called hit and scream in the 1800&#8217;s.<br \/>\nI think miss and scream a bit more apt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_JZiEJuVyWnk\/SLMGl0BQt7I\/AAAAAAAAACc\/-oEKBPtvOtA\/s1600-h\/Giant+Puff+ball.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238538038250878898\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_JZiEJuVyWnk\/SLMGl0BQt7I\/AAAAAAAAACc\/-oEKBPtvOtA\/s400\/Giant+Puff+ball.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:80%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Giant puffball, slice into steaks and saute in olive oil until golden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Nature Log<\/span> Heard a raven in the morning. Swimming at Seal Harbor Beach we saw a school of thin green eel-like fish dart all together one way, then all together another.The very rainy summer has made the mushroom growth greater than any I have seen in the last 25 years.Variety, size, and sheer abundance are astonishing. Hiked up Cadillac and down. The North Ridge Trail runs too close to the road for my enjoyment, but the South Ridge Trail goes through pitch pines, ledges with views of the outer islands: the Cranberry Islands, Sutton, Baker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first annual OCBC was held on a warm and sunny Saturday afternoon, hosted by Menna and Kurgan. Three teams&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,25],"tags":[32,30,31],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maine","category-otter-creek","tag-badminton","tag-cadillac-mountain","tag-mushrooms"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3djTm-e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}