{"id":1542,"date":"2016-02-25T00:38:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T00:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2016-02-25T00:38:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T00:38:20","slug":"death-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1542","title":{"rendered":"Death Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually when I visit DV the large parking-lot RV campground is closed because it&#8217;s off-season.  This time I get to stay in it.  Hey, something new.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s remarkable that I can&#8217;t see a single rental RV anywhere.  Rentals are almost always used by Europeans, and were regularly seen in big numbers at the big-name national parks.  It&#8217;s odd not to see any at all around here.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not impressed with the wildflower bloom.  There are some typical flowers to be seen, but it is by no means a &#8220;superbloom&#8221;.  I&#8217;ll go out tomorrow and expect to see more at higher elevations.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I&#8217;ll drive up out of this hole and over the Panamint mountains to Lone Pine and then to Bishop.  The weather is perfect for crossing the Sierra Nevada, so I want to keep moving. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually when I visit DV the large parking-lot RV campground is closed because it&#8217;s off-season. This time I get to stay in it. Hey, something new. It&#8217;s remarkable that I can&#8217;t see a single rental RV anywhere. Rentals are almost always used by Europeans, and were regularly seen in big numbers at the big-name national [&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-1542","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\/1542","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=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}