{"id":75339,"date":"2017-05-25T07:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=75339"},"modified":"2017-06-28T09:21:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T14:21:56","slug":"upholt-paddles-big-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2017\/05\/upholt-paddles-big-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Upholt paddles &#8220;Big River&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sleeping under the stars, rising with the sun to the sounds of the Mississippi River, paddling daily in a handcrafted canoe \u2014 Boyce Upholt, a graduate student at Delta State University, spent six weeks on the Mighty Mississippi this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Upholt, a candidate for a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (geography), is documenting the \u201cbatture,\u201d the woods between the levee and the river, as a part of his thesis.<\/p>\n<p>He calls this important and little-known landscape the \u201cwalled-in wild.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a way it\u2019s the leftovers,\u201d said Upholt. \u201cIt\u2019s half domesticated, contained by the levee wall, with concrete lining much of the river\u2019s edge, too. But it\u2019s half wild, too \u2014 maybe more than half.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See the full story and photos:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/photostories\/2017\/05\/25\/upholt-paddles-big-river\/\">https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/photostories\/2017\/05\/25\/upholt-paddles-big-river\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sleeping under the stars, rising with the sun to the sounds of the Mississippi River, paddling daily in a handcrafted canoe \u2014 Boyce Upholt, a graduate student at Delta State&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":512,"featured_media":75341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/512"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75339"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75568,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75339\/revisions\/75568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}