{"id":42071,"date":"2023-11-28T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=42071"},"modified":"2023-11-28T10:00:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T15:00:21","slug":"cobbs-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/11\/28\/cobbs-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Cobbs Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Cobbs Creek\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/53359884609\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53359884609_676c6e5901_c.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cobbs Creek\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Just past the last trolley stop on the Western border of Philadelphia is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cobbs_Creek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Cobbs Creek<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just past the last trolley stop on the Western border of Philadelphia is Cobbs Creek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[77,104,2093],"tags":[2287,5766,2288,3336],"class_list":["post-42071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-commuting","category-philadelphia","category-photography-2","tag-baltimore-avenue","tag-cobbs-creek","tag-delaware-county","tag-nature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-aWz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19105,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/06\/25\/big-timber-creek\/","url_meta":{"origin":42071,"position":0},"title":"Big Timber Creek","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"June 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in the 1980s, I went to art school, and I along with all of the other illustration majors were required to take a minor course in photography. 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