{"id":40226,"date":"2026-08-01T09:13:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=40226"},"modified":"2026-08-01T09:30:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:30:46","slug":"happy-150th-birthday-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=40226","title":{"rendered":"Happy 150th Birthday, Colorado!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Colorado0collage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40227 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Colorado0collage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Colorado0collage.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Colorado0collage-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Colorado0collage-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Colorado0collage-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>Colorado became a state August 1, 1876, 100 years after 1776, hence the nickname \u201cCentennial State\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">I love Colorado. I grew up there. Our family wandered all over the Colorado mountains when my brother and I were growing up. When I got married and children came along,\u00a0 we took them to Colorado on a regular basis when they were growing up. It is my favorite photography getaway state. If I could have a cabin anywhere in the Rocky Mountain West, three of my choices would Estes Park or Ouray or Telluride, all of which are in Colorado.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado became a state August 1, 1876, 100 years after 1776, hence the nickname \u201cCentennial State\u201d. I love Colorado. I grew up there. Our family wandered all over the Colorado mountains when my brother and I were growing up. When &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=40226\">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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40226","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=40226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40230,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40226\/revisions\/40230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}