{"id":206,"date":"2006-12-25T09:15:10","date_gmt":"2006-12-25T17:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opendna.com\/my-life-in-ascii\/the-long-wander\/2006\/206"},"modified":"2006-12-25T09:15:10","modified_gmt":"2006-12-25T17:15:10","slug":"merry-xmas-from-palm-springs-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/25\/merry-xmas-from-palm-springs-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Xmas from Palm Springs, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spacemika.com\/mm\/xmas3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/>Sure, this little desert adventure includes long car rides at high speed in the middle of the night (what road trip doesn&#8217;t?) but the week&#8217;s been more PG than Gonzo, and generally unfit for a rant of angst and confusion. The big deal is chill time with family. This trip is holiday jazz from shoutcast and fiber-optic Christmas trees, sun-screened walks through national parks and scenic drives at 35 mph.<\/p>\n<p>And a reminder that I love  terra desicata. ..<\/p>\n<p>Yes, terra desicata. I need to get myself out to the desert more often.<\/p>\n<p><em>This photo was taken at Baker&#8217;s Damn in Joshua Tree NP. Settlers built up the  natural depression was into a reservoir to support cattle operations and homesteading in the late 1800s. The rings on the rocks are recent high-water marks.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, this little desert adventure includes long car rides at high speed in the middle of the night (what road trip doesn&#8217;t?) but the week&#8217;s been more PG than Gonzo, and generally unfit for a rant of angst and confusion. The big deal is chill time with family. This trip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[83,27],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-long-wander","tag-palm-springs","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}