{"id":10565,"date":"2026-08-08T13:53:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=10565"},"modified":"2026-08-08T13:53:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:53:51","slug":"drift-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/08\/08\/drift-spin\/","title":{"rendered":"Drift Spin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260808_140646.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1392\" height=\"2048\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260808_140646.jpeg 1392w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260808_140646-204x300.jpeg 204w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260808_140646-696x1024.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260808_140646-768x1130.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260808_140646-1044x1536.jpeg 1044w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260808_140646-600x883.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1392px) 100vw, 1392px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The explanation of the word is long and complex but this is the short version.<\/p>\n<p>I think: drifter. And \u2026 shiftless.<\/p>\n<p>But really drift is just dirt and rocks pushed ahead of a glacier. It happened for four glaciations at least and the big ice got as far as Cairo down in Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>But for some reason no one really understands, up in this far northeast corner of Iowa, the area was spared from the dirty rocky inundation. <\/p>\n<p>It was and is<\/p>\n<p>Driftless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The explanation of the word is long and complex but this is the short version. I think: drifter. And \u2026 shiftless. But really drift is just dirt and rocks pushed ahead of a glacier. It happened for four glaciations at least and the big ice got as far as Cairo down in Illinois. But for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10567,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10565\/revisions\/10567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}