{"id":5645,"date":"2013-11-09T10:01:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T14:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5645"},"modified":"2013-11-09T10:01:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T14:01:08","slug":"fire-tower-like-a-lighthouse-in-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5645","title":{"rendered":"Fire tower \u2014 like a lighthouse in the woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fire-tower-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fire-tower-1.jpg\" alt=\"fire-tower-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fire-tower-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fire-tower-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fire-tower-1-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have long been fascinated by fire towers. Like lighthouses, they appeal to introverts because of their isolation and because they are found in appealing places \u2014 beside a coast, or in a forest. They have all the magic of promontories. Plus, fire towers have a certain nerdy appeal, because of the observation and communications apparatus that they contain.<\/p>\n<p>It happens that, in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/fugue.html\">Fugue in Ursa Major<\/a><\/em>, I use a fire tower as a setting. When writing the descriptions of the fire tower, I had to rely on research. But on a recent trip to the North Carolina coast, I had a chance to examine this fire tower up close and verify that my descriptions of the fire tower were accurate.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia has <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fire_tower\">a pretty good article<\/a> on fire towers, also called lookout towers. They vary in height, but the tallest one in the United States is 175 feet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fire-tower-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"586\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fire-tower-2.jpg\" alt=\"fire-tower-2\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fire-tower-2.jpg 900w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fire-tower-2-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The cabin<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fire-tower-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"586\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fire-tower-3.jpg\" alt=\"fire-tower-3\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fire-tower-3.jpg 900w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fire-tower-3-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The landing<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fire-tower-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"586\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fire-tower-4.jpg\" alt=\"fire-tower-4\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fire-tower-4.jpg 900w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fire-tower-4-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>One of the eight landings on the way up<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have long been fascinated by fire towers. Like lighthouses, they appeal to introverts because of their isolation and because they are found in appealing places \u2014 beside a coast, or in a forest. They have all the magic of promontories. Plus, fire towers have a certain nerdy appeal, because of the observation and communications &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5645\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fire tower \u2014 like a lighthouse in the woods&#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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5652,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions\/5652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}