{"id":20003,"date":"2018-06-02T19:16:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T00:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=20003"},"modified":"2018-06-02T19:16:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T00:16:04","slug":"an-unfortunate-banner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/02\/an-unfortunate-banner\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unfortunate Banner"},"content":{"rendered":"

417<\/em> magazine has a cover story this month Your Guide to the Best Swimming Holes in the Ozarks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although it’s not the magazine cover image, here’s the banner on the Web site:<\/p>\n

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The magazine hit the stands this week. Also in the news this week: High cliff jump into Buffalo River breaks paddler’s neck<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Nearly 40 feet high on the side of a cliff, [redacted] knew instantly that his double backflip into the Buffalo River wasn’t going right.<\/p>\n

“When I turned backwards on the cliff I started falling backwards,” [redacted] remembers. “I over-rotated on the way down and I didn’t land it well.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not from around here, so I was not aware the cliff jumps were a thing. I grew up in the projects, where we went wading in the storm water basins, and nobody was going to dive from the overpass into a couple inches of water over concrete. But apparently it is.<\/p>\n

Although it’s not illegal to jump from cliffs in Buffalo National River Park, ranger Casey Johannsen advised against it because of the risk for injury.<\/p>\n

“We have signage in the park that strongly discourages it,” Johannsen said Friday. “My recommendation, always, is don’t do it.”<\/p>\n

There are no fines if someone is observed jumping off a cliff, but Johannsen said several people a year are injured doing risky cliff jumps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It shouldn’t be illegal, of course, but people need to be careful.<\/p>\n

Strangely enough, the incident reminded me of a book: The Dive from Clausen’s Pier<\/em><\/a>. Between the book, though, and cliff-jumping into an unknown stretch of river, I’d be torn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

417 magazine has a cover story this month Your Guide to the Best Swimming Holes in the Ozarks. Although it’s not the magazine cover image, here’s the banner on the Web site: The magazine hit the stands this week. Also in the news this week: High cliff jump into Buffalo River breaks paddler’s neck: Nearly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20005,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20003\/revisions\/20005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}