{"id":10516,"date":"2016-12-28T20:39:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T04:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=10516"},"modified":"2016-12-30T09:50:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T17:50:21","slug":"man-tripping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2016\/12\/28\/man-tripping\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Tripping"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m pretty sure that the entire San Joaquin Valley reeks of cow manure. Someone really needs to look into it, because it can’t be benefiting tourism to have things smelling poopy.<\/p>\n

Woke up at 5:30 this morning, an hour before my alarm, since the universe likes it when you see the sun come up. Merced National Wildlife Refuge was the sunrise destination, and Kern National Wildlife Refuge was the sunset destination, and both were chock full of birds and people shooting at birds (duck stamps<\/a> help pay for wildlife refuges). Wedged in between those two visits was a giant biscuit at the Black Bear Diner<\/a>, because it wouldn’t be a man trip without a manly breakfast.<\/p>\n

\"Snow<\/p>\n

I zoomed in on the full resolution image, and so far as I can tell not a single one of these snow geese is bumping into his neighbor. Taken in Merced NWR.<\/div>\n

\"Red-tailed<\/p>\n

Red-tailed hawk in Merced NWR.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m pretty sure that the entire San Joaquin Valley reeks of cow manure. Someone really needs to look into it, because it can’t be benefiting tourism to have things smelling poopy. Woke up at 5:30 this morning, an hour before my alarm, since the universe likes it when you see the sun come up. Merced … Continue reading “Man Tripping”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,30],"class_list":["post-10516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-man-trip","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10516"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10532,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516\/revisions\/10532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}