{"id":431,"date":"2007-08-22T21:04:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T21:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchbooks.com\/invis\/wordpress\/?p=431"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:21:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:21:26","slug":"skagway-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2007\/08\/skagway-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Skagway, Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/o9F21k2huyY\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/o9F21k2huyY\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><BR><br \/>\nThis was taken while flying at about 5000 feet over Denver Glacier in Skagway, Alaska, on the way to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akdogtour.com\" target=\"_blank\">dog sled camp<\/a>. I&#8217;m not a huge fan of planes. And, unfortunately, while we were winding down our time in Alaska we heard about a number of local disasters. But, flying in a helicopter is like riding in an elevator. Definitely, the best experience of my whole trip.<BR><br \/>\nWe had 10 straight days of perfect weather. Which is why we had a viewing distance from this helicopter of approximately 100 miles. Unheard of in Alaska, where the locals in Ketchikan measure their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/weather\/news\/2005-12-28-alaska-precipitation_x.htm\" target=\"_blank\">annual rainfall<\/a> in feet (13 on average!) instead of inches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was taken while flying at about 5000 feet over Denver Glacier in Skagway, Alaska, on the way to a dog sled camp. I&#8217;m not a huge fan of planes. And, unfortunately, while we were winding down our time in Alaska we heard about a number of local disasters. But, flying in a helicopter is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}