{"id":118,"date":"2007-09-09T22:39:04","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T06:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheldodge.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/09\/yosemite-part-1\/"},"modified":"2007-09-09T22:39:04","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T06:39:04","slug":"yosemite-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/2007\/09\/09\/yosemite-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Yosemite, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent Thursday, Friday, and Saturday camping in Yosemite National Park with my brother Michael. I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time at Yosemite in the past, but it was always for the purpose of doing geology field work. This is the first time I was able to go there, and just relax, enjoy myself, and take hundreds of photos. Of course, I found myself making observations about the geology too. Geology is deeply ingrained in me.  My poor brother had to listen to all of my explanations about how this had formed, and how that had formed&#8230; blah, blah, blah&#8230; I&#8217;m glad he didn&#8217;t decide to abandon me in the park.<\/p>\n<p><img><br \/>\n<i>Vernal Falls is a 300&#8242; high waterfall, which while beautiful, is much more impressive in the spring.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img><br \/>\n<i>A stellers jay begs for my lunch (as do a couple of squirrels and chipmunks, not pictured here.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img><br \/>\n<i>Typical view of the 3000-foot high walls of Yosemite Valley. Impressive, eh?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img><br \/>\n<i>Michael relaxes for a few minutes.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Coming Soon &#8211; Part 2 of our trip to Yosemite&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Question of the Day: If you&#8217;ve been to Yosemite, what&#8217;s your favorite part? When is your favorite time to go?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent Thursday, Friday, and Saturday camping in Yosemite National Park with my brother Michael. I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time at Yosemite in the past, but it was always for the purpose of doing geology field work. This is the first time I was able to go there, and just relax, enjoy myself, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}