{"id":124,"date":"2009-02-07T01:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=124"},"modified":"2009-02-07T01:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T01:55:00","slug":"eh-the-fossils-arent-going-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"Eh, the Fossils Aren&#8217;t Going Anywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/Sanr19RDfLI\/AAAAAAAAABA\/uxT5T5HibX4\/s1600-h\/trex.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/Sanr19RDfLI\/AAAAAAAAABA\/uxT5T5HibX4\/s320\/trex.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>As I was looking at sites to see along our trip, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/dino\/\">Dinosaur National Monument<\/a> was on many lists.  I just learned that the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/dino\/why-is-the-quarry-visitor-center-closed.htm\">Quarry Visitor Center<\/a>&#8221; there has been closed since 2006.  And is not expected to open within the next couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>The Quarry Visitor Center gave tourists access to view many fossils still in place in a cliff side.  Unfortunately, the building has been suffering some structural damage due to foundation shifts and such.<\/p>\n<p>The park still has many other fossils on public display (and even a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/history\/museum\/exhibits\/dino\/overview.html\">virtual visitor center<\/a>), and I am told by those who have been there that the surrounding scenery is fantastic, and a short driving tour of the area is still well worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was looking at sites to see along our trip, Dinosaur National Monument was on many lists. I just learned that the &#8220;Quarry Visitor Center&#8221; there has been closed since 2006. And is not expected to open within the next couple of years. The Quarry Visitor Center gave tourists access to view many fossils [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}