{"id":57,"date":"2010-05-25T03:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=57"},"modified":"2010-05-25T03:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T03:13:00","slug":"never-heard-of-the-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Never Heard of the Place&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/S_s9IZQyLCI\/AAAAAAAAAS0\/yixcRHR5QD8\/s1600\/P1012336.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/S_s9IZQyLCI\/AAAAAAAAAS0\/yixcRHR5QD8\/s320\/P1012336.JPG\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>So on last year&#8217;s trip, we <a href=\"http:\/\/sandpaper-shoes.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/porcupines-and-rattlesnakes.html\">visited a quiet little national monument<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/agfo\">Agate Fossil Beds<\/a>, in Nebraska.\u00a0 This was the place we found porcupines, rattlesnakes, jackrabbits, and an empty visitors&#8217; center (the rangers were in their weekly meeting when we showed up. They quickly come out to excitedly greet us&#8230; and turn the lights on).<\/p>\n<p>Well, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/travel\/la-tr-nationalmonuments-least-pg,0,2610446.photogallery\">recent article from the Chicago Tribune<\/a> says Agate Fossil Beds is the fifth-least visited national monument in the country.\u00a0 In 2009, Diana and I were two of only 12,694 visitors to the monument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So on last year&#8217;s trip, we visited a quiet little national monument, Agate Fossil Beds, in Nebraska.\u00a0 This was the place we found porcupines, rattlesnakes, jackrabbits, and an empty visitors&#8217; center (the rangers were in their weekly meeting when we showed up. They quickly come out to excitedly greet us&#8230; and turn the lights on). [&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\/57"}],"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=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}