{"id":214,"date":"2003-11-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/2003\/11\/04\/dinosaur-national-monument\/"},"modified":"2003-11-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-04T07:00:00","slug":"dinosaur-national-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/2003\/11\/04\/dinosaur-national-monument\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinosaur National Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Shannon’s parents come to visit, we frequently head out on short trips with them. In the past, we’ve gone to Moab<\/a> and Yellowstone. This October we went to Dinosaur National Monument, which has a somewhat misleading name.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

That’s not to say that there isn’t dinosaur stuff, or a monument in the traditional sense, but it is really a national park covering over 200,000 acres between Utah and Colorado.<\/p>\n

\"Outside
Outside the dinosaur quarry, a sheltered rock wall packed with thousands of Jurassic
\nbones (yes, that’s a cast on Gerrit’s arm).<\/span>
\nOctober 17, 2003<\/p>\n

\"Ethan
\nEthan handles a millions-of-years-old
\ndinosaur bone at the quarry.<\/span>
\nOctober 17, 2003<\/p>\n

\"The
\nThe Green River, flowing through
\nthe autumn desert.<\/span>
\nOctober 17, 2003<\/p>\n

\"A
\nA closer look at the Green River where it had cut through the rock to form a high, smooth cliff.<\/span>
\nOctober 17, 2003<\/p>\n

\"Matching
\nMatching cast and sucker.<\/span>
\nOctober 17, 2003<\/p>\n

\"Me
\nMe in a box canyon that served as a natural corral for Josie Morris,\u00a0
\nwho lived in a log cabin here until about 40 years ago.<\/span>
\nOctober 17, 2003<\/p>\n

\"Shannon
\nShannon hanging out with a dino.<\/span>
\nOctober 17, 2003<\/p>\n

\"Harpers
\nIt took hours by car and foot to get to Harpers Corner, but the views were nice, and no one fell off a cliff.<\/span>
\nOctober 17, 2003<\/p>\n

\"Ethan
\nEthan takes on grandma in a fierce game of Go Fish.<\/span>
\nOctober 18, 2003<\/p>\n

\"Deer
\nWe stopped at Deer Creek Reservoir on the way back home, where the
\nboys very narrowly avoided falling headlong into the mud.<\/span>
\nOctober 18, 2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Shannon’s parents come to visit, we frequently head out on short trips with them. In the past, we’ve gone to Moab and Yellowstone. This October we went to Dinosaur National Monument, which has a somewhat misleading name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familynews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}