{"id":1078,"date":"2015-01-23T01:29:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T01:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2015-01-23T01:29:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T01:29:55","slug":"quartzsite-happenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1078","title":{"rendered":"Quartzsite happenings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not one for the Tent Show (I&#8217;m not alone at that, apparently) but I do like the gem and rock shows around here.  Which are quite good.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic is a real pain, but my routine is to go into town in the morning to get decent parking, then work my way out before noon.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was too windy to even set foot outside, it was better today, I even fell asleep in the sun today.  But, as the sun went down, it became cool.  That&#8217;s a Q euphemism for cold.<\/p>\n<p>I hosted (I&#8217;m not sure why) happy hour this afternoon which was quite populous for some reason.  Jim and Bobbie came, and friends of Steve and Sandy showed up.  We had a great time, folk from all over meeting up in the desert.  It&#8217;s one of the attractions for Q in spite of the traffic, the bad food, and the useless crap being sold.  We do much better making our own entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, it&#8217;s cold when the sun sets. Sunsets are outstanding, and the moon last night was amazing&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not one for the Tent Show (I&#8217;m not alone at that, apparently) but I do like the gem and rock shows around here. Which are quite good. Traffic is a real pain, but my routine is to go into town in the morning to get decent parking, then work my way out before noon. [&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-1078","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\/1078","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=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}