{"id":186606,"date":"2010-01-15T17:51:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T22:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"1699 at http:\/\/atlasobscura.com"},"modified":"2010-01-15T17:51:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T22:51:53","slug":"mud-island-river-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/186606","title":{"rendered":"Mud Island River Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\/tennessee\/shelby-county\/memphis\">Memphis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\/tennessee\">Tennessee<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/categories\/miniatures\">Miniatures<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Mississippi is the second longest river in the world, but in Memphis, Tennessee you can see it all in one short afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The River Walk is a 5-block long replica of the lower Mississippi river, from Cairo, IL, to New Orleans, LA. Each 30&#8243; stride is equivalent to one mile on the actual river. Along your journey, you&#8217;ll revisit historical events and learn about geographical transformations. <\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;1,000&#8221; mile journey concludes at the Gulf of Mexico, a one acre enclosure that holds 1.3 million gallons of water. There, visitors can enjoy a leisurely pedal boat ride around the Gulf area with the Memphis skyline in the background.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.atlasobscura.com\/files\/imagecache\/place_main\/place_images\/3903632625_5b310fe006_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"280\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis, Tennessee | Miniatures The Mississippi is the second longest river in the world, but in Memphis, Tennessee you can see it all in one short afternoon. The River Walk is a 5-block long replica of the lower Mississippi river, from Cairo, IL, to New Orleans, LA. Each 30&#8243; stride is equivalent to one mile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}