{"id":575,"date":"2012-04-02T19:38:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T23:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinkel.us\/?p=575"},"modified":"2012-06-07T23:54:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T03:54:05","slug":"the-year-of-the-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"The Year of the National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_582\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-582\" class=\"size-full wp-image-582  \" title=\"Mammoth Cave National Park - Kentucky\" src=\"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC01604-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC01604-002.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dinkel.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC01604-002-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mammoth Cave National Park - Kentucky<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It seems this will be the year that I will stay within US borders and visit some of our National Parks.\u00a0 This weekend I began by visiting Mammoth Cave National Park just a couple of hours down the road.\u00a0\u00a0Two\u00a0things I learned after scouring through the photos this evening: it is impossible to take a good photograph inside a cave; second thing&#8211;who the hell wants to look at photos taken inside a cave (at least the awful ones I took).\u00a0 Still, I will post one and hope that my future trips&#8211;all outside, thankfully&#8211;will produce much better results.\u00a0 Up next is a short weekend trip to Yosemite Valley at the end of this month and then up to the Badlands in South Dakota\u00a0in late May.\u00a0 I will finish up\u00a0in late July\/early August with a two day trip through Death Valley National Park then on an 8 day hike along the John Muir trail.\u00a0 If time permits and lottery luck is on our side, we may head back to Yosemite Valley for the Half Dome hike&#8230;.where my fear of heights will be tested.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves me with September through December without any plans&#8230;..maybe there will be some international adventure after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems this will be the year that I will stay within US borders and visit some of our National Parks.\u00a0 This weekend I began by visiting Mammoth Cave National Park just a couple of hours down the road.\u00a0\u00a0Two\u00a0things I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/?p=575\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,29,17,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kentucky","category-mammoth-cave-np","category-south","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}