{"id":2590,"date":"2013-06-18T09:17:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T15:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=2590"},"modified":"2013-06-18T09:25:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T15:25:41","slug":"southwest-longing-june-18-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=2590","title":{"rendered":"Southwest longing  June 18, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2591\" alt=\"IMG_0783\" src=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0783-625x305.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0783-625x305.jpg 625w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0783-150x73.jpg 150w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0783-450x219.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino; font-size: medium;\"><em>Saguaro National Park <\/em>by Dave Procniack from the New Century Artist&#8217;s show at the library. Loved this one and Bob gave it to me for my birthday. Indeed, we are planning a southwest getaway next winter&#8230; six weeks in Las Vegas close to two of Bob&#8217;s children and their families; and for me, four hours to LA and Cully&#8217;s family. This winter was a big bummer for both of us. (Even though Bob insists he likes winter.) We can take George, have rented a house (Vacation Rental by Owner) and suddenly the long winter doesn&#8217;t seem so daunting.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: book antiqua,palatino;\">I have missed the southwest&#8230;We have seen this park thanks to Bob&#8217;s friend Michael in Tucson who asked us to visit a couple of years ago. We will stop in Santa Fe on the way to Las Vegas or back to visit friends and family &#8212; and even Las Vegas itself (bizzaro place that it is) is close to wilderness areas and more desert.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saguaro National Park by Dave Procniack from the New Century Artist&#8217;s show at the library. Loved this one and Bob gave it to me for my birthday. Indeed, we are planning a southwest getaway next winter&#8230; six weeks in Las Vegas close to two of Bob&#8217;s children and their families; and for me, four hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2593,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions\/2593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}