{"id":528,"date":"2005-04-10T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-11T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2005\/04\/10\/valley-of-the-gods-utah\/"},"modified":"2017-06-08T22:46:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T05:46:59","slug":"valley-of-the-gods-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2005\/04\/10\/valley-of-the-gods-utah\/","title":{"rendered":"Valley of the Gods, Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s camping spot is another unexpected destination, but with a name like &#8220;Valley of the Gods&#8221; it seemed like a place not to be missed.  Spent the entire day in Monument Valley, which was impressive (as expected).  Unfortunately the Navajo don&#8217;t permit any travel except on the park road, so there was no hiking or quiet moments.  Nonetheless, there were numerous opportunities for photos, although with my usual skill I seem to have botched the vast majority of them.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/photos\/american_west\/highlights\/pages\/2005-04-B\/4793-monument-valley-self-portrait.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Self-Portrait in Monument Valley\" class=\"img-main\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2005-04-B\/4793-monument-valley-self-portrait.jpg\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Shortly after this picture was taken the wind blew the camera over, and I spent the next ten minutes climbing down a cliff to retrieve the (broken) lens.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s camping spot is another unexpected destination, but with a name like &#8220;Valley of the Gods&#8221; it seemed like a place not to be missed. Spent the entire day in Monument Valley, which was impressive (as expected). Unfortunately the Navajo don&#8217;t permit any travel except on the park road, so there was no hiking or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2005\/04\/10\/valley-of-the-gods-utah\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Valley of the Gods, Utah&#8221;<\/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":[67,30,13],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-monument-valley","tag-photography","tag-road-trip-2005"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","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=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2447,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/2447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}