{"id":23,"date":"2010-06-26T03:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=23"},"modified":"2010-06-26T03:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T03:21:00","slug":"calsbad-caverns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Calsbad Caverns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We drove to Carlsbad this morning and got to the caverns shortly after noon.\u00a0 We walked to &#8220;Big Room&#8221; which we had not done last year.\u00a0 It was not too crowded for a Friday afternoon.\u00a0 The elevator means that the crowd comes in waves, so you can usually wait a few minutes for a group to pass you.<\/p>\n<p>I took several photos that turned out well.\u00a0 Near the end of the loop of the Big Room, I came across a tour of the lower cave that was ascending back to the normal path.\u00a0 This tour of about 12 people requires a certain amount of spelunking.\u00a0 I took a couple of photos before a ranger came over and asked me not to take pictures.\u00a0 Not sure why.\u00a0 (You know, you can click on the photo collages on this blog to see a slightly larger version.)<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/TCVyNQXWtEI\/AAAAAAAAAZc\/OWkx6DiFpRo\/s1600\/small22.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/TCVyNQXWtEI\/AAAAAAAAAZc\/OWkx6DiFpRo\/s640\/small22.jpg\" width=\"640\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We drove to Carlsbad this morning and got to the caverns shortly after noon.\u00a0 We walked to &#8220;Big Room&#8221; which we had not done last year.\u00a0 It was not too crowded for a Friday afternoon.\u00a0 The elevator means that the crowd comes in waves, so you can usually wait a few minutes for a group [&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\/23"}],"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=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}