{"id":763,"date":"2017-04-19T18:49:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T18:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/?p=763"},"modified":"2017-04-19T18:49:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T18:49:24","slug":"lush-verdant-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"Lush, Verdant, Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-766 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2015-08-13-16.11.14-e1492627380464.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1010\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2015-08-13-16.11.14-e1492627380464.jpg 1010w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2015-08-13-16.11.14-e1492627380464-300x164.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2015-08-13-16.11.14-e1492627380464-768x420.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1010px) 100vw, 1010px\" \/><em>Saguaros lining the road north towards Flagstaff<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I expected heat during my first drive through Arizona. And lots of it, given that it was August. And mostly, I got it, though what a nice surprise to see beautiful pines of the Flagstaff area! Mountains, grasses, pines, sunflowers, such large expanses of open space.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-764\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2015-08-14-17.19.00.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2015-08-14-17.19.00.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2015-08-14-17.19.00-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2015-08-14-17.19.00-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These photos come from where we posted camp near Flagstaff to make a day trip to the Grand Canyon (up next!). We tried to go for a little hike, but then the thunder started rolling in! Summer storms!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-765 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2015-08-14-18.43.36-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2015-08-14-18.43.36.jpg 768w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2015-08-14-18.43.36-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><em>Arizona National Scenic Trail<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saguaros lining the road north towards Flagstaff I expected heat during my first drive through Arizona. And lots of it, given that it was August. And mostly, I got it, though what a nice surprise to see beautiful pines of the Flagstaff area! Mountains, grasses, pines, sunflowers, such large expanses of open space. These photos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}