{"id":37074,"date":"2025-06-12T10:49:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T15:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=37074"},"modified":"2025-06-12T10:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T15:49:43","slug":"happy-birthday-big-bend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=37074","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Big Bend!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12007\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/890501-Sunset-Window-AEM7-w7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12007\" class=\"wp-image-12007 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/890501-Sunset-Window-AEM7-w7.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset, &quot;The Window&quot;, Chisos Basin\" width=\"700\" height=\"462\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunset, &#8220;The Window&#8221;, from the Chisos Basin.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Big Bend National Park was o<span class=\"x6zurak x18bv5gf x184q3qc xqxll94 x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1yc453h x1lliihq xzsf02u xlh3980 xvmahel x1x9mg3 xo1l8bm\" dir=\"auto\">fficially established June 12, 1944. Generally I don\u2019t like deserts. I like mountains, high altitude lakes and streams, cool breezes, and pine scented air. So imagine my surprise when I fell in love with Big Bend on my very first visit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2474\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/930422_Boquillas_Rio_Grande_AXI-14_j6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2474\" class=\"wp-image-2474 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/930422_Boquillas_Rio_Grande_AXI-14_j6.jpg\" alt=\"Boquillas Canyon, Big Bend National Park, Texas.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boquillas Canyon, Big Bend National Park, Texas.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_15648\" style=\"width: 536px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/930422-Ocotillo-Big-Bend-AXF8-w7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15648\" class=\"wp-image-15648 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/930422-Ocotillo-Big-Bend-AXF8-w7.jpg\" alt=\"Ocotillo. Big Bend National Park. Texas.\" width=\"526\" height=\"700\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ocotillo in Bloom, Big Bend National Park, Texas.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_37075\" style=\"width: 544px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/930422-Rio-Grande-Boquillas-Canyon-2-AXI4-w8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37075\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37075\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/930422-Rio-Grande-Boquillas-Canyon-2-AXI4-w8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/930422-Rio-Grande-Boquillas-Canyon-2-AXI4-w8.jpg 534w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/930422-Rio-Grande-Boquillas-Canyon-2-AXI4-w8-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rio Grande River near the mouth of Boquillas Canyon. Big Bend National Park, Texas.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Bend National Park was officially established June 12, 1944. Generally I don\u2019t like deserts. I like mountains, high altitude lakes and streams, cool breezes, and pine scented air. So imagine my surprise when I fell in love with Big &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=37074\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-locations","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37076,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37074\/revisions\/37076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}