{"id":1964,"date":"2016-09-05T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T04:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:47:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:47:38","slug":"labor-day-walking-the-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/09\/05\/labor-day-walking-the-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Day &#8211; walking the bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mac Bridge on Labor day, a great Labor Day tradition in my state \u2014 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mightymac.org\/bridgewalk.htm\">http:\/\/www.mightymac.org\/bridgewalk.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>5 miles across<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although the direction of the walk was south to north in the early years, the walk is now always from the Upper Peninsula to the lower Peninsula. A fleet school buses takes the majority of the walkers from the Mackinaw City side to the foot of the bridge in St. Ignace. The other walkers use the buses to return to the UP after their walk. There is no fee to walk the bridge, but there is a $5 charge for the bus. The buses depart from the Old State Dock in Mackinaw City from 5:30 AM until 2:30 PM.<\/p>\n<p>To manage the 30-80,000 people who walk the bridge, the following are\u00a0NOT\u00a0permitted: smoking, signs, banners, umbrellas, bicycles, roller skates, skateboards, wagons and other similar devices. Baby strollers and wheelchairs are allowed on the bridge during the walk. The ONLY animals permitted are working service dogs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/09\/MacBridge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1965 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/09\/MacBridge.jpg\" alt=\"MacBridge\" width=\"1029\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/09\/MacBridge.jpg 1029w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/09\/MacBridge-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/09\/MacBridge-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/09\/MacBridge-1024x498.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1029px) 100vw, 1029px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mac Bridge on Labor day, a great Labor Day tradition in my state \u2014 \u00a0http:\/\/www.mightymac.org\/bridgewalk.htm 5 miles across john sj &#8220;Although the direction of the walk was south to north in the early years, the walk is now always from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/09\/05\/labor-day-walking-the-bridge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1966,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions\/1966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}