{"id":3370,"date":"2013-09-23T21:47:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T01:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/james\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2013-09-23T21:47:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T01:47:37","slug":"james-river-hidden-serenity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/james\/2013\/09\/23\/james-river-hidden-serenity\/","title":{"rendered":"James River: Hidden Serenity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel lucky because even though it&#8217;s only the first semester of my sophomore year I have gone to James River park system many times. \u00a0I know that at University Richmond there many people here \u00a0who go their entire four years without exploring everything that the park system has to offer. \u00a0Swimming, kayaking, tubingx just hanging out the rocks, and exploring the wildlife have been some of the most serene experiences of ever had in my entire life.<\/p>\n<p>My first experience \u00a0by the river we went tubing through the rapids and I made it almost all the away across just hopping on and off rocks protruding from the rushing water. Once I reached the largest rock, dead set in the middle of the riverbed, I splayed out and soaked in everything around us. \u00a0Hearing the birds chirp, watching the fish dart around the rocks and currents of the River, which the suns rays so simply reflect off of, it all possessed \u00a0a natural beauty that any definition does not seem to truly capture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel lucky because even though it&#8217;s only the first semester of my sophomore year I have gone to James River park system many times. \u00a0I know that at University Richmond there many people here \u00a0who go their entire four &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/james\/2013\/09\/23\/james-river-hidden-serenity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}