{"id":488,"date":"2012-09-30T14:46:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T14:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=488"},"modified":"2023-01-04T21:49:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T21:49:42","slug":"yosemite-words-and-pictures-just-dont-it-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"Yosemite &#8211; words and pictures just don&#8217;t it justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We weren&#8217;t planning to visit Yosemite from the east side, but upon looking at a map we realized it wasn&#8217;t far at all into Yosemite Valley where the views are magnificent of El Capitan, Half Dome and the Bridal Veil Falls.\u00a0 So, we went.<\/p>\n<p>We were in awe of how beautiful this area really is.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not something that can be described in words and even really good pictures (let alone ours) cannot do it justice.\u00a0 So, I&#8217;ll just say visiting this fabulous place should be on EVERYONE&#8217;s 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We were in awe of how beautiful this area really is.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=488\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yosemite &#8211; words and pictures just don&#8217;t it justice<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-mono-lake-and-east-side-of-yosemite-ca","category-wherenow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7474,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/7474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}