{"id":223,"date":"2010-07-14T21:30:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T02:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/?p=223"},"modified":"2010-07-20T03:46:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T08:46:27","slug":"sequoia-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"Sequoia National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This park couldn&#8217;t be more different from Yosemite &#8211; the ranger at the gate was very friendly and just asked me if I wanted a map and newspaper (since I now have the annual pass on the car, they assume I might be a regular). He informed me of all of the road construction and when the best times to avoid delays were.<\/p>\n<p>The road construction I encountered was very professionally managed, with one lane of paved road alternating directions every hour.<\/p>\n<p>I feel sorry for the ranger that has to walk to all of the waiting cars and tell them when the road is re-opening. She had to walk a couple miles down the road (with the accompanying 1000+ feet of elevation  change) and then back up. I told her they should get her a Segway. She has to do this 4 times a day.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in the woods with a slow Internet connection &#8211; I may post some pictures later if it speeds up.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Pictures, as promised&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A very lazy deer &#8211; it was walking along the paved path until I came along &#8211; then it went over the fence back into the woods:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/6F5S7746-s.jpg\" alt=\"Deer in General Grant Grove\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The obligatory picture of the General Grant Tree:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/6F5S7753-s.jpg\" alt=\"General Grant Tree\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My Atom overlooking Kings Canyon:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/6F5S7793-s.jpg\" alt=\"Atom at Kings Canyon\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This park couldn&#8217;t be more different from Yosemite &#8211; the ranger at the gate was very friendly and just asked me if I wanted a map and newspaper (since I now have the annual pass on the car, they assume I might be a regular). He informed me of all of the road construction and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}