{"id":899,"date":"1945-12-10T00:03:07","date_gmt":"1945-12-10T08:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/?p=899"},"modified":"2019-11-06T13:29:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T21:29:38","slug":"where-i-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/where-i-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Where I Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/where-i-live\/white-water-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-989\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/white-water1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"white-water\" width=\"960\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-989\" \/><\/a>I live in Southern Oregon, on a wild and scenic river.<br \/>\nMost of Southern Oregon\u2019s nearly 300,000 residents live near Medford, Ashland, Grants Pass, and Jacksonville, in the folds of land along the I-5 corridor and the valley of the wild Rogue River. Here a series of sheltering ridges slice the region into distinct communities and microclimates. A banner across the main street in Grants Pass declares, \u201cIt\u2019s the Climate,\u201d and the locals know that\u2019s true\u2014the climate, the access to nature, and the pace of life.<br \/>\nTourists come here for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, the Britt Festival\u2019s music in the historic gold-mining town of Jacksonville, or to raft the Rogue out of Grants Pass.<br \/>\nTo the west lie the coastal communities of Bandon, Gold Beach, Brookings, picturesque towns framed by high bluffs and sea caves and broad balmy beaches that justify this area\u2019s nickname as Oregon\u2019s Banana Belt.<br \/>\nWhere I now live, in between the valley and the coast, there\u2019s pretty much nothing but a million acres of wilderness, with breathtaking canyons, wild rivers, and hidden resorts inaccessible by car.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s beautiful and rich country, where you can navigate class V rapids in the morning and attend a world-class performance of Twelfth Night in the evening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in Southern Oregon, on a wild and scenic river. Most of Southern Oregon\u2019s nearly 300,000 residents live near Medford, Ashland, Grants Pass, and Jacksonville, in the folds of land along the I-5 corridor and the valley of the wild Rogue River. Here a series of sheltering ridges slice the region into distinct communities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[121,123,122,120],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-grants-pass","tag-michael-swaine","tag-mike-swaine","tag-oregon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4442,"href":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/4442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}