{"id":1199,"date":"2010-12-24T00:30:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T20:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2010-12-28T22:47:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T18:47:07","slug":"christmas-tree-at-the-top-of-thunder-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/christmas-tree-at-the-top-of-thunder-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Tree at the top of Thunder Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1200\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Thunder_Mountain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1200\" title=\"Thunder_Mountain\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Thunder_Mountain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Thunder_Mountain.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Thunder_Mountain-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There&#39;s a Christmas tree near the top of Thunder Mountain<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Where&#8217;s Thunder Mountain?\u00a0 It&#8217;s the mountain that separates the  Mendenhall Glacier River Valley and the Lemon Creek River valley in Juneau, Alaska.)<\/p>\n<p>See that slightly dark indentation to the left of the two humps at the top of this mountain?\u00a0 Just to the left of that indentation, my father said there was (going to be) a Christmas tree up there.\u00a0 This is pretty much the view from the living room window of his house where he lay on the couch two years ago in October 2008.\u00a0 He was &#8220;on his way out&#8221; with colon cancer.\u00a0 Once a week he would repeat:\u00a0 &#8220;&#8230;lots of snow,&#8230;wow, lots of snow&#8230;we&#8217;re going to have lots of snow this year&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 Sure enough by mid-December 2008, right about the time of his passing, the Western States and the Northwest Coast had record-breaking snowfalls.\u00a0 I remember spending an entire month shoveling snow every day keeping the walkway, driveway, rooftops and vehicles free of snow.\u00a0 Many of us were literally snowed in.<\/p>\n<p>So when my father said there (would be) a Christmas tree near the top of Thunder Mountain, I want to believe him.\u00a0 I cannot see it from where I stand, yet I betcha if I squint hard enough, small colorful\u00a0 lights will appear on one of them trees!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Where&#8217;s Thunder Mountain?\u00a0 It&#8217;s the mountain that separates the Mendenhall Glacier River Valley and the Lemon Creek River valley in Juneau, Alaska.) See that slightly dark indentation to the left of the two humps at the top of this mountain?\u00a0 Just to the left of that indentation, my father said there was (going to be) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,23],"tags":[24,38],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honoring-others","category-photo-essays-of-alaska","tag-mendenhall-glacier-visitors-center","tag-william-lampe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}