{"id":165,"date":"2013-04-20T00:23:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T00:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=165"},"modified":"2013-07-31T00:26:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T00:26:30","slug":"joshua-trees-and-its-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Trees!  And, it&#8217;s cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my way up here I was struck by a large grove of a yucca species, very similar to Joshua Trees, but a bit smaller, more compact.  I asked the ranger today and he confirmed they were indeed Joshua, an isolated stand in just the right place to thrive.  Joshuas grow in a very narrow band of elevation and latitude, so it&#8217;s always a treat to see them.<\/p>\n<p>It was 28 when the sun came up this morning.  There&#8217;s a bunch of cold air reaching down a tad bit far south to be considered usual.  Tomorrow I head further north and higher yet in the mountains, and the forecast is for 25 and 56.  No problem, I just burn propane like crazy.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty here, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my way up here I was struck by a large grove of a yucca species, very similar to Joshua Trees, but a bit smaller, more compact. I asked the ranger today and he confirmed they were indeed Joshua, an isolated stand in just the right place to thrive. Joshuas grow in a very narrow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","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\/165","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=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}