{"id":1044,"date":"2014-12-30T23:15:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T23:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2014-12-30T23:16:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T23:16:31","slug":"back-at-quartzsite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"Back at Quartzsite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The forecast for the next week is about 50 for a high, 25 for a low.  Slight chance of snow tomorrow.  Add in a pretty good breeze, and I&#8217;m at an RV park with electricity.  I&#8217;ll use my electric space heater with the cat heater as a helper if necessary, which is likely.<\/p>\n<p>If it doesn&#8217;t snow it will probably drizzle, which will make Q weather and that of Seattle about the same.<\/p>\n<p>The cold is going to damage lemon trees in Yuma, but it also kills the prickly pear cactus, which is not a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s a big advantage to bad weather at Q:  The sunrises and sunsets can be breathtaking.<\/p>\n<p>I try out different parking spaces around Q, just to mix things up a bit, maybe discover someplace interesting or useful.  This time I&#8217;m in town on Kuehn road [at the Red Rose] just minutes from the downtown action.  There&#8217;s not a lot of people here yet, so I got a great deal on the weekly rate.  It&#8217;s another way to experience Quartzsite which doesn&#8217;t have many options for variety&#8230;.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The forecast for the next week is about 50 for a high, 25 for a low. Slight chance of snow tomorrow. Add in a pretty good breeze, and I&#8217;m at an RV park with electricity. I&#8217;ll use my electric space heater with the cat heater as a helper if necessary, which is likely. If it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}