{"id":35183,"date":"2026-02-03T19:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T00:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35183"},"modified":"2026-02-03T20:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:53:14","slug":"mammoths-stalking-a-frozen-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35183","title":{"rendered":"Mammoths Stalking a Frozen Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I drove out Mt. Pisgah Road to see the glacier laying over the east coast.<\/p>\n<p>It was cold and bleak.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_20260203_133539091-1200x675.jpg\" alt=\"Looking toward the bridges across the Susquehanna\" class=\"aligncenter size-fullwidth wp-image-35180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I saw no tracks of woolly mammoths, but I feel they must have been around somewhere.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_20260203_133637744-1200x720.jpg\" alt=\"Looking south along the Susquehanna\" class=\"aligncenter size-fullwidth wp-image-35182\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The windmills on Turkey Hill were lost in the mist.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"540\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_20260203_133635031-1200x540.jpg\" alt=\"Looking east toward Lancaster\" class=\"aligncenter size-fullwidth wp-image-35181\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another inch of snow is due to fall tonight.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p><i>&#8220;I won an award.  It&#8217;s on the wall in my office.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"432\" height=\"96\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot_20260203_204429.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot from Facebook congratulating me for being a &quot;top fan&quot; of Lloyd Smucker\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35184\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Who knew all I had to do to become a &#8220;top fan&#8221; of Representative Lloyd Smucker (R-Toady) was to leave anti-capitalist quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr. and suggestions of Medicare for All on his Facebook page?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I drove out Mt. Pisgah Road to see the glacier laying over the east coast. It was cold and bleak. I saw no tracks of woolly mammoths, but I feel they must have been around somewhere. The windmills on Turkey Hill were lost in the mist. Another inch of snow is due to fall tonight.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35183\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Mammoths Stalking a Frozen Land&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[4467,728],"class_list":["post-35183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-susquehanna-river","tag-winter","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}