{"id":4741,"date":"2019-01-08T07:33:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T15:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=4741"},"modified":"2020-06-25T12:54:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T19:54:52","slug":"a-fort-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/a-fort-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fort Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I returned to the beach where the previous morning I had a built a magisterial fort and left behind a tin with writing materials to inaugurate a new fort message project. <\/p>\n<p>Three new forts stood a few feet away from mine. Three! They were sturdy as frontier stockades. Someone knew what they were doing. These were pro jobs. There were beaverwood accents. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_8958.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2592\" height=\"1936\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_8958.jpg 2592w, https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_8958-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_8958-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_8958-1024x765.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2592px) 100vw, 2592px\" \/>One was decorated ingeniously with tires. I&#8217;d never seen that before. <\/p>\n<p>I investigated them. I went inside and poked around. <\/p>\n<p>On the roof of one fort, wedged between pieces of beaverwood, was a post card of a William Blake engraving! In recent years, I had left behind similar Blake post cards in the fort message tins. They had always disappeared. <\/p>\n<p>I knew there was a master fort builder at work in the area. I am not making this up.<\/p>\n<p>I went to my fort and opened the message tin. I read the challenge. I smiled and laughed aloud like Errol Flynn in one of his swashbuckling movies. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s on. I have no idea who you are, or your motives, but let the building begin. Touche with the tires. <\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t a competition. This is bliss. <\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4741\" data-postid=\"4741\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4741 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I returned to the beach where the previous morning I had a built a magisterial fort and left behind a tin with writing materials to inaugurate a new fort message project. Three new forts stood a few feet away from mine. Three! They were sturdy as frontier stockades. Someone knew what they were doing. These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,5,32],"tags":[36,47,6,48,13],"class_list":["post-4741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-driftwood-forts","category-meditations","category-oregon-beaches","tag-beaches","tag-driftwood-forts","tag-matt-love","tag-oregon-beaches","tag-oregon-coast","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4745,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions\/4745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}