{"id":178,"date":"2008-11-30T21:59:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T04:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=176"},"modified":"2008-11-30T21:59:40","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T04:59:40","slug":"the-locks-stink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"The Locks stink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ballard Locks (a.k.a. the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hiram_M._Chittenden_Locks\">Hiram M. Chittenden Locks<\/a><\/strong>) are currently closed for annual cleaning and maintenance. And the lock that&#8217;s drained stinks. Of fish and barnacles, to be precise.<\/p>\n<p>The grounds are open, but the actual locks are closed to boats until Dec. 7. You can read more about it <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2008441899_ballardlocks27.html\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2008\/11\/30\/the-locks-stink\/ballard-locks-01\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Ballard_Locks_01.jpg\" alt=\"Ballard Locks 01\" title=\"Ballard Locks 01\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1083\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2008\/11\/30\/the-locks-stink\/ballard-locks-02\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Ballard_Locks_02.jpg\" alt=\"Ballard Locks 02\" title=\"Ballard Locks 02\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1084\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2008\/11\/30\/the-locks-stink\/ballard-locks-03\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Ballard_Locks_03.jpg\" alt=\"Ballard Locks 03\" title=\"Ballard Locks 03\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1085\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2008\/11\/30\/the-locks-stink\/ballard-locks-04\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Ballard_Locks_04.jpg\" alt=\"Ballard Locks 04\" title=\"Ballard Locks 04\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1086\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2008\/11\/30\/the-locks-stink\/ballard-locks-05\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Ballard_Locks_05.jpg\" alt=\"Ballard Locks 05\" title=\"Ballard Locks 05\" width=\"150\" height=\"114\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1087\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2008\/11\/30\/the-locks-stink\/ballard-locks-06a\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Ballard_Locks_06a.jpg\" alt=\"Ballard Locks 06a\" title=\"Ballard Locks 06a\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1088\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2008\/11\/30\/the-locks-stink\/ballard-locks-07\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Ballard_Locks_07.jpg\" alt=\"Ballard Locks 07\" title=\"Ballard Locks 07\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1089\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2008\/11\/30\/the-locks-stink\/ballard-locks-08\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Ballard_Locks_08.jpg\" alt=\"Ballard Locks 08\" title=\"Ballard Locks 08\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1090\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ballard Locks (a.k.a. the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks) are currently closed for annual cleaning and maintenance. And the lock that&#8217;s drained stinks. Of fish and barnacles, to be precise. The grounds are open, but the actual locks are closed to boats until Dec. 7. You can read more about it here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ballard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}