{"id":893,"date":"2012-07-05T15:31:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T22:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=893"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:33:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:33:27","slug":"trip-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2012\/07\/05\/trip-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_1600.jpg\" alt=\"DSC 1600\" width=\"312\" height=\"207\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here we are.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived in Boulder where it is hot &amp; sticky. 5 minutes ago it was raining which of course was just enough to turn the dust on the car into mud.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s bad enough\u2026 But a few minutes of rain on hot asphalt was like dumping the ladle of water on the hot rocks in a sauna.<\/p>\n<p>The humidity is now worse than anything I ever saw in FL.<\/p>\n<p>As evening falls it will probably cool off\u2026 but not by much.<\/p>\n<p>I was so focused on getting here that I didn&#8217;t stop to take any pictures yet today and probably won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I&#8217;m sure that there will be time to wander and do the photography thing.<\/p>\n<p>In the mean time\u2026 I&#8217;ll share some of the other photos from the fort yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The lady giving the tour was sweet and even though it was very hot the poor dear would hear nothing of cutting the tour a little short. She is 80 and while she may not walk fast, she gets around that place alright. I was seeing signs of dehydration and began to be concerned about her.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_1598.jpg\" alt=\"DSC 1598\" width=\"207\" height=\"312\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the end, I shook her hand and wished her well. I also suggested that she go inside and have a nice cool drink of water.<\/p>\n<p>I have to give the LDS church a lot of credit for this too. Everyone has a wonderful work ethic, and the church does find ways for their elderly to be useful for as long as they wish to or are able.<\/p>\n<p>I have a lot of respect for that.<\/p>\n<p>No, I&#8217;m not likely to convert\u2026 They&#8217;d have a hard time with any number of aspects of me.<\/p>\n<p>I do tend to ask too many questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are. We arrived in Boulder where it is hot &amp; sticky. 5 minutes ago it was raining which of course was just enough to turn the dust on the car into mud. That&#8217;s bad enough\u2026 But a few minutes of rain on hot asphalt was like dumping the ladle of water on the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2012\/07\/05\/trip-day-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trip Day 3&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}