{"id":24,"date":"2010-06-25T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=24"},"modified":"2010-06-25T03:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:03:00","slug":"mesa-verde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Mesa Verde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We stayed in Cortez, Colorado last night &#8212; just down the street from Mesa Verde.\u00a0 We got there early this morning (to road construction as they improve the park road) and spent about five hours in the park.\u00a0 We stowed away on a tour of the Long House, but left Cliff Palace and Spruce Tree House for another day.<\/p>\n<p>During our tour, we met a park ranger named Habenicht.\u00a0 Diana was quite excited, as you can imagine.\u00a0 We also saw a HUGE squirrel climbing the ladders of the cliff dwellings.\u00a0 (I don&#8217;t think Diana will approve of that juxtaposition since the two events are not comparable in their monumental-ness&#8230; so, to the photos!)<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/TCQ4mhRfWUI\/AAAAAAAAAZU\/JRdc0Fia55g\/s1600\/small21.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/TCQ4mhRfWUI\/AAAAAAAAAZU\/JRdc0Fia55g\/s640\/small21.jpg\" width=\"640\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We stayed in Cortez, Colorado last night &#8212; just down the street from Mesa Verde.\u00a0 We got there early this morning (to road construction as they improve the park road) and spent about five hours in the park.\u00a0 We stowed away on a tour of the Long House, but left Cliff Palace and Spruce Tree [&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\/24"}],"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=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}