{"id":305,"date":"2006-07-29T15:21:12","date_gmt":"2006-07-29T19:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=305"},"modified":"2006-07-29T15:21:12","modified_gmt":"2006-07-29T19:21:12","slug":"garden-of-the-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Garden of the Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather continues hot here in Colorado, but we decided to hike around Garden of the Gods city park anyway.  This place is too beautiful to miss.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Co Spgs Garden Gods pano.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Co%20Spgs%20Garden%20Gods%20pano.jpg\" width=\"359\" height=\"115\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also rather busy, especially on a sunny summer weekend like this, with rock climbers and browsers of all descriptions.  There are a few short trails off the beaten path, if you need to escape the  crowds.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a good Visitor Center with various added-value attractions: a movie ($2), gift shops, cafe, a bus tour ($5), etc.  But the park itself is free and the view is spectacular.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Co Spgs Garden Gods rocks.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Co%20Spgs%20Garden%20Gods%20rocks.jpg\" width=\"359\" height=\"239\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After some hot hiking, we decided to visit our local Thai restaurant for lunch.  A blog reader and fellow traveler, Brad A, mentioned that he has not seen any good Pad Thai lately.  Brad, this one&#8217;s for you!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Co Spgs thai.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Co%20Spgs%20thai.jpg\" width=\"359\" height=\"239\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now we&#8217;re taking a break before meeting the in-laws for a barbecue nearby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather continues hot here in Colorado, but we decided to hike around Garden of the Gods city park anyway. This place is too beautiful to miss. It&#8217;s also rather busy, especially on a sunny summer weekend like this, with rock climbers and browsers of all descriptions. There are a few short trails off the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}