{"id":3145,"date":"2011-01-17T17:07:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T22:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2011-01-17T20:28:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T01:28:17","slug":"xc-skiing-on-mlk-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/17\/xc-skiing-on-mlk-day\/","title":{"rendered":"XC Skiing on MLK Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/P1171213.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/96138-2\/P1171213.jpg\" height=480 width=640 border=0 title=\"Metroparks and Oakland County Parks pass on my windshield.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Being <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._Day\">Martin Luther King, Jr. Day<\/a> I headed out to Stony Creek to do some XC skiing. While the trails weren&#8217;t groomed, there was enough of a track worn in that skiing was still fun. (<a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/travel\/local_places\/P1171209.jpg.html\">Photo<\/a>) I ended up skiing lots of two track, likely totaling somewhere around 8 miles.<\/p>\n<p>Before leaving the house I fitted this year&#8217;s joint <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metroparks.com\/\">Metroparks<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.destinationoakland.com\/\">Oakland County Parks<\/a>. Despite costing $48, this pass is an excellent buy for anyone who regularly goes to both organization&#8217;s parks, particularly someone like me who doesn&#8217;t live in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oakland_County,_Michigan\">Oakland County<\/a>. While the normal price for an annual Metroparks pass is only $25, the non-resident <a href=\"http:\/\/www.destinationoakland.com\/parksandtrails\/vehiclepermits\/pages\/default.aspx\">Oakland County Parks pass is a whopping $45<\/a>. Thus, by purchasing the joint pass (also known Parks Perks Pass) it&#8217;s $22 cheaper for me to get access to all the parks than it would be if I&#8217;d bought the passes separately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being Martin Luther King, Jr. Day I headed out to Stony Creek to do some XC skiing. While the trails weren&#8217;t groomed, there was enough&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/17\/xc-skiing-on-mlk-day\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">XC Skiing on MLK Day<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-outdoors","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3148,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions\/3148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}