{"id":759,"date":"2005-10-01T21:25:32","date_gmt":"2005-10-02T02:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=759"},"modified":"2005-10-02T19:34:17","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T00:34:17","slug":"big-sweep-in-morgan-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/big-sweep-in-morgan-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Sweep in Morgan Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before noon today, I was rolling abandoned mud-filled tires out of cold creek water, through the briars and out to the gravel road that parallels <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morgancreek.org\/\">Morgan Creek<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbg.unc.edu\/mason.htm\">the Mason Farm Reserve.<\/a> Sally, Tucker and I along with about ten high school students were taking part in the Big Sweep.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbigsweep.org\/\"><br \/>\nThe Big Sweep<\/a> is a nation, state and local project to clean streams. So we were <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spirited_Away\">a little like the hero<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nausicaa.net\/miyazaki\/sen\/\">&#8220;Spirited Away&#8221;<\/a> as we pulled odd findings and lots of plastic trash out of the sand and mud trying to restore the creek. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallygreene.org\/news\/mirror-sweep-10-2.htm\">Sally had been a sweeper for several years,<\/a> but this was the first for me. <\/p>\n<p>It was actually fun to be in the creek pulling stuff out and leaving a part of the Reserve garbage free (until the next big rain). <a href=\"http:\/\/sallygreene.org\/bigsweep\/bigsweep.html\">Sally has pictures<\/a> <strike>that I&#8217;ll link to once they&#8217;re up.<\/strike><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if she&#8217;ll have a picture of the oddest of our findings, a bouy from a lake upstream (but what lake is upstream from Chapel Hill on Morgan Creek? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.owasa.org\/pages\/unlake.asp\">University Lake<\/a>?). A &#8220;no wake&#8221; warning bouy was quite out of place there in the shallow creek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before noon today, I was rolling abandoned mud-filled tires out of cold creek water, through the briars and out to the gravel road that parallels Morgan Creek in the Mason Farm Reserve. Sally, Tucker and I along with about ten high school students were taking part in the Big Sweep. The Big Sweep is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}