{"id":87,"date":"2009-06-23T22:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=87"},"modified":"2009-06-23T22:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T22:27:00","slug":"garden-of-the-gods-top-free-attraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Garden of the Gods &#8212; Top Free Attraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/SkFXNjjA8SI\/AAAAAAAAAIQ\/1Xj8w4UxY2U\/s1600-h\/37963-hi-GardenGods.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/SkFXNjjA8SI\/AAAAAAAAAIQ\/1Xj8w4UxY2U\/s320\/37963-hi-GardenGods.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripadvisor.com\/\">TripAdvisor<\/a> listed the top &#8220;unheralded&#8221; free attractions in the U.S.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenofgods.com\/home\/index.cfm?flash=1\">Garden of the Gods<\/a> was #2 on that list.<\/p>\n<p>To see their list, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/mnr\/tripadvisor\/37963\/\">the link<\/a> and scroll past the list of &#8220;germiest&#8221; tourist stops (a list that leaves of the Burger King bathroom in Victoria, Texas, for some reason).<\/p>\n<p>What are your most memorable &#8220;free&#8221; stops? <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In our family, the continental divide is memorable (for good and bad reasons &#8212; we had to visit the hospital in Jackson Hole after one stop to sled in the snow).<\/li>\n<li>The bats under the Congress Street Bridge in Austin, Texas <span>used<\/span> to be really spectacular in about 1992.  You could see a stream of them heading off to the horizon.  But over the past several years, development in the area has made it less impressive (and there are a lot more people there to watch them&#8230; some nights it&#8217;s downright crowded).<\/li>\n<li>Public beaches (in Texas, the beach cannot be privately owned&#8230; this is not true in all states)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TripAdvisor listed the top &#8220;unheralded&#8221; free attractions in the U.S. Garden of the Gods was #2 on that list. To see their list, visit the link and scroll past the list of &#8220;germiest&#8221; tourist stops (a list that leaves of the Burger King bathroom in Victoria, Texas, for some reason). What are your most memorable [&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\/87"}],"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=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}