{"id":65,"date":"2009-07-28T03:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T03:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=65"},"modified":"2009-07-28T03:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T03:50:00","slug":"mountains-and-mammoths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Mountains and Mammoths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/Sm5_gsLuKhI\/AAAAAAAAAPU\/wyqlKPxgw5E\/s1600-h\/mon-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/Sm5_gsLuKhI\/AAAAAAAAAPU\/wyqlKPxgw5E\/s400\/mon-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Left Wyoming today&#8230; went to South Dakota&#8230; then Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>Visited Mount Rushmore today.  (Parking is private concession &#8211; what&#8217;s up with that?!)  The rain stopped just as we pulled into the parking lot.  Did a self tour down the presidential trail and through the sculptor&#8217;s studio.  As soon as we got back inside the exhibit hall, the rain started up again.  (Again, we were blessed with great timing.)  At one of the gift shops, a gentleman who worked as a driller during the monument&#8217;s construction was there answering questions and signing books.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/Sm6AEJx26XI\/AAAAAAAAAPc\/_5jvs0zq0a8\/s1600-h\/mon-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/Sm6AEJx26XI\/AAAAAAAAAPc\/_5jvs0zq0a8\/s400\/mon-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>We considered driving to the Crazy Horse Memorial, but it was pricey and we had some miles to cover, so we skipped it.  We stopped at &#8220;The Mammoth Site&#8221; in Hot Springs, South Dakota.  Here they discovered a bed of mammoth fossils that they are in the [slow] process of excavating.  We made it on to Nebraska for sleepy time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left Wyoming today&#8230; went to South Dakota&#8230; then Nebraska. Visited Mount Rushmore today. (Parking is private concession &#8211; what&#8217;s up with that?!) The rain stopped just as we pulled into the parking lot. Did a self tour down the presidential trail and through the sculptor&#8217;s studio. As soon as we got back inside the exhibit [&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\/65"}],"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=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}