{"id":25919,"date":"2024-07-07T11:58:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T16:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/?p=25919"},"modified":"2024-07-07T11:58:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T16:58:24","slug":"four-hours-on-the-housatonic-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/four-hours-on-the-housatonic-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Four hours on the Housatonic River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four hours in a kayak paddling (and drifting!) on the celebrated Housatonic River in the Berkshires, between the Decker boat launch on New Lenox Rd. and Wood&#8217;s Pond, is as good a way to spend four hours on the Fourth of July. Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with coining the exclamation, There&#8217;s no tonic like the Housatonic. Our marvelously meandering stream also won the affection of the great Charles Ives, who composed a piece titled, The housatonic at Stockbridge. And today I learned that some Lily Pods are pink!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25931\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25931\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/berkshires-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240704_125434-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Kayaker views of the Housatonic River, between New Lenox Rd. and Wood&#039;s Pond, by Dave Read.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-large wp-image-25931\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25931\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pink lily pods in the Housatonic River, between New Lenox Rd. and Wood&#8217;s Pond, by Dave Read.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four hours in a kayak paddling (and drifting!) on the celebrated Housatonic River in the Berkshires, between the Decker boat launch on New Lenox Rd. and Wood&#8217;s Pond, is as good a way to spend four hours on the Fourth of July. Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with coining the exclamation, There&#8217;s no tonic like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-parks-and-recreation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}