{"id":552,"date":"2005-05-03T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2005\/05\/03\/pretty-pictures\/"},"modified":"2005-05-03T23:35:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-04T06:35:00","slug":"pretty-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2005\/05\/03\/pretty-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The picture below was taken way back in 1997 during my first solo roadtrip, but for whatever reason I had never put it up on the site.  That trip rather profoundly shaped my life; thereafter I wanted to get out and see things, and didn&#8217;t let issues like lack of travel partners, lack of accommodation, or even lack cash get in the way.  It was the trip that taught me that things wouldn&#8217;t always be smooth, but that they would almost certainly be memorable, and that the only thing standing in the way of getting started was me.<\/p>\n<p>Waking up cramped and stiff in the backseat of a tiny Geo Prism with my knees practically bent up to my chin wasn&#8217;t something that anyone would really want to do, but enjoying a cool desert morning, watching the sunrise, and having the freedom to go wherever the winds blew me &#8212; life hasn&#8217;t been the same since then.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/photos\/american_west\/highlights\/pages\/calypso\/saguaro-sunrise.html#top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Saguaro Cactus at Sunrise\" class=\"img-main\" height=\"600\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/calypso\/saguaro-sunrise.jpg\" width=\"401\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Saguaro Cactus at Sunrise.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The picture below was taken way back in 1997 during my first solo roadtrip, but for whatever reason I had never put it up on the site. That trip rather profoundly shaped my life; thereafter I wanted to get out and see things, and didn&#8217;t let issues like lack of travel partners, lack of accommodation, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2005\/05\/03\/pretty-pictures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pretty Pictures&#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":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","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=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}