{"id":6475,"date":"2017-10-21T23:16:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T03:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=6475"},"modified":"2023-07-24T15:14:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T19:14:40","slug":"mount-edgecumbe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2017\/10\/mount-edgecumbe\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Edgecumbe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carol and I are here in Alaska to participate in the Alaska Sacred Harp Convention, and we have been singing every day, and we attended a &#8220;singing school,&#8221; pretty much as you&#8217;d expect. But our gracious host Kari also arranged for those attending the convention to go on a whale watch trip. Over the course of an hour and three quarters on the water, we saw more than twenty humpback whales &#8212; and the scenery was spectacular as well. I particularly enjoyed looking at Mt. Edgecumbe, a long-extinct volcano. At this season Mt. Edgecumbe is snow-clad from it summit about halfway down to the sea, making it look like something out of a classic Japanese woodblock print, only more dramatic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mt-Edgecumbe-Sitka.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mt-Edgecumbe-Sitka.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2808\" height=\"2790\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mt-Edgecumbe-Sitka.jpg 2808w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mt-Edgecumbe-Sitka-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mt-Edgecumbe-Sitka-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mt-Edgecumbe-Sitka-768x763.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mt-Edgecumbe-Sitka-1024x1017.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mt-Edgecumbe-Sitka-624x620.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carol and I are here in Alaska to participate in the Alaska Sacred Harp Convention, and we have been singing every day, and we attended a &#8220;singing school,&#8221; pretty much as you&#8217;d expect. But our gracious host Kari also arranged for those attending the convention to go on a whale watch trip. Over the course &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2017\/10\/mount-edgecumbe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mount Edgecumbe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[315,72],"class_list":["post-6475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-trips","tag-alaska","tag-sacred-harp-singing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6478,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6475\/revisions\/6478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}