{"id":1049,"date":"2012-09-15T19:04:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T02:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2016-08-27T10:11:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T17:11:26","slug":"september-15-mesa-verde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/2012\/09\/15\/september-15-mesa-verde\/","title":{"rendered":"September 15: Mesa Verde"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1054\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1054\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Mesa-Verde-National-Park.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Mesa-Verde-National-Park.png\" alt=\"Mesa Verde National Park\" title=\"Mesa Verde National Park\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Mesa-Verde-National-Park.png 400w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Mesa-Verde-National-Park-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mesa Verde National Park Entrance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Mile 8500 &#8211; Del Norte, Colorado.<\/strong>\u00a0 We spent a half day in a National Park that requires at least a full day.\u00a0 This country has too much to see, even if you travel for two months.\u00a0 After leaving the park, we crossed the continental divide over Wolf Creek Pass.\u00a0 We saw the first hints of fall foliage with some very colorful aspen trees on the east side of the pass.\u00a0 The weather has been beautiful the last three days.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1053\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1053\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Cliff-Palace.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Cliff-Palace.png\" alt=\"Cliff Palace\" title=\"Cliff Palace\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Cliff-Palace.png 400w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Cliff-Palace-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1055\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1055\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Spruce-Tree-House-Closeup-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Spruce-Tree-House-Closeup-1.png\" alt=\"Spruce Tree House at Mesa Verde\" title=\"Spruce Tree House Closeup 1\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Spruce-Tree-House-Closeup-1.png 400w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Spruce-Tree-House-Closeup-1-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spruce Tree House at Mesa Verde<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1056\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1056\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Spruce-Tree-House-Closeup-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Spruce-Tree-House-Closeup-2.png\" alt=\"Spruce Tree House \" title=\"Spruce Tree House Closeup 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Spruce-Tree-House-Closeup-2.png 300w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Spruce-Tree-House-Closeup-2-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spruce Tree House at Mesa Verde<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1052\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1052\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Sun-Temple.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Sun-Temple.png\" alt=\"Sun Temple\" title=\"Sun Temple\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Sun-Temple.png 400w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Sun-Temple-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sun Temple at Mesa Verde<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1059\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1059\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Great-Divide.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Great-Divide.png\" alt=\"The Great Divide\" title=\"Great Divide\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Great-Divide.png 400w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Great-Divide-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Great Divide at Wolf Creek Pass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>[Photographs &copy; 2012 P.J. Gardner. All Rights Reserved.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mile 8500 &#8211; Del Norte, Colorado.\u00a0 We spent a half day in a National Park that requires at least a full day.\u00a0 This country has too much to see, even if you travel for two months.\u00a0 After leaving the park, we crossed the continental divide over Wolf Creek Pass.\u00a0 We saw the first hints of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/2012\/09\/15\/september-15-mesa-verde\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;September 15: Mesa Verde&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arjan","category-pj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}