{"id":13950,"date":"2016-02-25T21:54:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T02:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=13950"},"modified":"2016-02-25T21:54:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T02:54:48","slug":"entering-mordor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=13950","title":{"rendered":"Entering Mordor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ztiig.jpg\" title=\"One does not simply walk into Mordor. Its Black Gates are guarded by more than just Orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep, and the Great Eye is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire and ash and dust, the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume. Not with ten thousand men could you do this. It is folly.\" width=\"568\" height=\"335\" size-full wp-image-13956\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ztiig.jpg 568w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ztiig-150x88.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ztiig-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Maybe one does not simply walk into Mordor, but today it sure felt like a bunch of us were driving into it. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r21CMDyPuGo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was bright and sunny and 55\u00b0F when I left home this morning. Bright blue skies, puffy clouds after a night of deluging rain, thunder and lightning for several hours. The Kinderhook was way out of its banks.<\/p>\n<p>As I got closer to the Hudson, the slant of light changed. I could see a rim of clouds ahead with slices of light hitting the top of the hills behind Guilderland. If I was going to invent a gadget for the car it would be a camera that I could direct with my eyes, to take a photo of what I&#8217;m looking at, without having to do all the steps. Look, &#8220;Click&#8221;, done.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, black black black ridge of clouds with a fairly dark gray ridge above it. And big ploppy drops of rain falling out of them both. All the headlights came on and the windshield wipers.<\/p>\n<p>I pulled into the very wet parking lot and sat a moment watching people run into the mall and then I grabbed my stuff and did the same. Spent part of the morning remembering my trip to Mordor last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mordor.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13951\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mordor.jpg\" title=\"mordor, march 2015\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" size-full wp-image-13951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mordor.jpg 5472w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mordor-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mordor-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mordor-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mordor-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ztidw-2.jpg\" title=\"One does not...\" width=\"568\" height=\"335\" size-full wp-image-13954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ztidw-2.jpg 568w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ztidw-2-150x88.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ztidw-2-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28,550,621,124],"tags":[205,338,335,551],"class_list":["post-13950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-neighborhood","category-lotr","category-taking-time-to-look","category-weather","tag-lotr-2","tag-mordor","tag-nz","tag-weather"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-3D0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13950"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13959,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13950\/revisions\/13959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}