{"id":87,"date":"2005-12-29T19:54:55","date_gmt":"2005-12-29T23:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=87"},"modified":"2005-12-29T19:54:55","modified_gmt":"2005-12-29T23:54:55","slug":"balboa-park-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Balboa Park, San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am pleased to report that Operation Kill Paper has been a success already, although it is not complete.  I&#8217;ve reduced my paper to about half of what it was, and we celebrated with a paper bonfire at sunset.  If we&#8217;d had some wood handy I would have gotten a proper fire going &#8212; the evening temperatures are perfect for it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"SD paper fire.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/SD%20paper%20fire.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the very best places in San Diego is Balboa Park.  A beautiful and architecturally interesting place, it is both a series of green parklands and world-class collection of museums.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday we visited the Museum of Natural History, on Christmas we went there for the San Diego Zoo, on Tuesday (while I was stuck at home with a cold) Eleanor &#038; Emma went to the Aerospace Museum, and today we returned to go the Reuben Fleet Science Center.   Among other things, Emma got to learn about tornadoes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"SD tornado.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/SD%20tornado.jpg\" width=\"265\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just a walk around Balboa Park is worth the trip, even if you never enter a building. Most of the building designs are based on Spanish Colonial Architecture, dripping with terra-cotta oraments and sculpted details.  I wish I&#8217;d taken some photos for you but my head was just not fully together today.  (The cold lingers on.)<\/p>\n<p>The question now is whether we&#8217;ll depart tomorrow for Borrego Springs or hang around San Diego another day.  We&#8217;ll decide tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am pleased to report that Operation Kill Paper has been a success already, although it is not complete. I&#8217;ve reduced my paper to about half of what it was, and we celebrated with a paper bonfire at sunset. If we&#8217;d had some wood handy I would have gotten a proper fire going &#8212; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"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=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}