{"id":11710,"date":"2014-05-25T18:48:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T22:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=11710"},"modified":"2014-05-25T18:54:59","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T22:54:59","slug":"weekend-ramblings-deckers-creek-rail-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/11710","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Ramblings: Decker&#8217;s Creek Rail Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s excursion was biking along the Decker&#8217;s Creek Rail Trail.<\/p>\n<p>When I was little, Decker&#8217;s Creek was dead. Due to acid mine drainage and other pollutants, nothing lived in the creek, it was an unappealing shade of orange, and it stank.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I still wouldn&#8217;t drink from Decker&#8217;s Creek on a bet, but it&#8217;s a whole lot better, and the community is working to continue to improve it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/14082762578\" title=\"20140525_Deckers_Creek_014 by Michelle Klishis, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3774\/14082762578_25bcfa3e7a_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20140525_Deckers_Creek_014\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/14267324892\" title=\"20140525_Deckers_Creek_010 by Michelle Klishis, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3665\/14267324892_03818a33e1_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20140525_Deckers_Creek_010\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/14246299276\" title=\"20140525_Deckers_Creek_040 by Michelle Klishis, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3811\/14246299276_999d0b8451_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20140525_Deckers_Creek_040\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/14268991604\" title=\"20140525_Deckers_Creek_047 by Michelle Klishis, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3832\/14268991604_62f2a7a680_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20140525_Deckers_Creek_047\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ride details<br \/>\nLocation: Mon River &#038; Decker&#8217;s Creek Rail Trail<br \/>\nDistance: <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/rail-trail-biking.html\">22.3 miles<\/a><br \/>\nElevation change: <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/deckers-creek-elevation.png\">693 feet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s excursion was biking along the Decker&#8217;s Creek Rail Trail. 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Today, I still wouldn&#8217;t drink from Decker&#8217;s Creek on a bet, but it&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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}},"categories":[1037,22,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morgantown","category-photos","category-west-virginia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-32S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}