{"id":9717,"date":"2014-08-18T15:02:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T20:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=9717"},"modified":"2014-08-18T15:03:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T20:03:36","slug":"photo-of-the-day-kayaker-at-chapman-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2014\/08\/18\/photo-of-the-day-kayaker-at-chapman-mills\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the day: Kayaker at Chapman Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">W<\/span>e have long loved the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rvca.ca\/careas\/chapman\/\">Chapman Mills conservation area<\/a>. It&#8217;s a beautiful little piece of nature tucked in between a busy Barrhaven suburb and the Rideau River. I was worried that the new Strandherd-Armstrong bridge would ruin this peaceful little oasis, but if anything the boardwalk is more lovely than ever.<\/p>\n<p>I loved the tranquility in the original version of this photo, but something about those breeze in those leaves and bullrushes cried out for painterly brush strokes, so I had a little fun in Photoshop. What do you think?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/14775410958\" title=\"Kayaker at Chapman Mills by Danielle Donders, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3859\/14775410958_a2ce5b2a5c_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Kayaker at Chapman Mills\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post a few more photos of our wander along the boardwalk and under the bridge later this week. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have long loved the Chapman Mills conservation area. It&#8217;s a beautiful little piece of nature tucked in between a busy Barrhaven suburb and the Rideau River. I was worried that the new Strandherd-Armstrong bridge would ruin this peaceful little oasis, but if anything the boardwalk is more lovely than ever. I loved the tranquility &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2014\/08\/18\/photo-of-the-day-kayaker-at-chapman-mills\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photo of the day: Kayaker at Chapman Mills&#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":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9717"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9721,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717\/revisions\/9721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}