{"id":785,"date":"2017-05-02T21:59:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T21:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/?p=785"},"modified":"2017-05-02T21:59:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T21:59:27","slug":"was-that-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/?p=785","title":{"rendered":"Was that a&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOUNTAIN LION?<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, no mountain lion photos. But, allow me to set the scene. It&#8217;s high summer in Arizona. Heading from the GC to Flagstaff after a hoooot morning and afternoon, you can suddenly feel the mugginess. The monsoon is rolling in!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-787\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2015-08-15-16.44.51-e1493762063877.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1016\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2015-08-15-16.44.51-e1493762063877.jpg 1016w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2015-08-15-16.44.51-e1493762063877-300x172.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2015-08-15-16.44.51-e1493762063877-768x441.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1016px) 100vw, 1016px\" \/>It&#8217;s getting darker!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-788\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2015-08-15-17.07.43.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2015-08-15-17.07.43.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2015-08-15-17.07.43-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2015-08-15-17.07.43-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>And greener!<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, a huge tan mass with a long thick tail pads across the road in front of us and drops down into the bushes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-789 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2015-08-15-16.59.22-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2015-08-15-16.59.22-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2015-08-15-16.59.22-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2015-08-15-16.59.22.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-790\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2015-08-15-17.03.02-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2015-08-15-17.03.02-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2015-08-15-17.03.02-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2015-08-15-17.03.02.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Was it? It must have been!<\/p>\n<p>Only mountain lion sighting thus far (phew) :D<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOUNTAIN LION? Sorry, no mountain lion photos. But, allow me to set the scene. It&#8217;s high summer in Arizona. Heading from the GC to Flagstaff after a hoooot morning and afternoon, you can suddenly feel the mugginess. The monsoon is rolling in! It&#8217;s getting darker! And greener! Suddenly, a huge tan mass with a long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785"}],"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=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}