{"id":1771,"date":"2012-08-07T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2012-08-07T18:37:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T23:37:56","slug":"the-badlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/the-badlands\/","title":{"rendered":"The Badlands"},"content":{"rendered":"

A morning drive across South Dakota set us up for a leisurely afternoon hiking and driving through Badlands National Park. The scenery reminded me some of the Qumran\/Masada area and some of Bryce Canyon in Utah. <\/p>\n

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View from Big Badlands Overlook<\/em><\/p>\n

We had time to do a number of hikes. Here the whole family hikes on the easy Cliff Shelf Trail.<\/p>\n

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Hiking on the Cliff Shelf Trail<\/em><\/p>\n

I don’t know if I should be pleased or not that Jonathan climbed up this rock by himself.<\/p>\n

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Mark and Jonathan on Cliff Shelf Trail<\/em><\/p>\n

One more view.<\/p>\n

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View from Pinnacles Overlook<\/em><\/p>\n

I learned something else as a result of our afternoon drive through the Badlands. Don’t drive on roads with fresh tar unless you like spending hours scrubbing it off the paint of your car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A morning drive across South Dakota set us up for a leisurely afternoon hiking and driving through Badlands National Park. The scenery reminded me some of the Qumran\/Masada area and some of Bryce Canyon in Utah. View from Big Badlands Overlook We had time to do a number of hikes. Here the whole family hikes\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}