{"id":2139,"date":"2013-07-14T17:30:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T01:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=2139"},"modified":"2013-07-16T22:07:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T06:07:37","slug":"day-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/14\/day-5-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>6\/30\/2013 Sunday &#8211; Arches<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The sign in the lobby of Far View Lodge said sunrise is at 5:48am, so I set my alarm at 5:30am.<\/p>\n<p>I wake up at the sound of the alarm and stumble out to the balcony hoping to catch a glimpse of glory.<\/p>\n<p>Lo and behold, it was hazy, due to an impending thunderstorm.<\/p>\n<p>I go back to bed. So much for that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>We left Mesa Verde at about 9:30am. The drive to Arches National Park is about 2 1\/2 hours. It was early afternoon when we arrived. Another day of 105F+ temperature.<\/p>\n<p>Everything was as beautiful as the postcards. And just as far away because it was too much to walk a 1\/2 mile in the heat of the day to get up close. \u00a0A normal 80-90 degrees I can handle but I don&#8217;t want to get a heat stroke out there in the blazing sun with not a tree in sight for shade.<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend going to Arches another season of the year. The scenery is incredible.<\/p>\n<p>On to <a href=\"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/15\/day-5-6\/\" target=\"_blank\">Salt Lake City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6\/30\/2013 Sunday &#8211; Arches The sign in the lobby of Far View Lodge said sunrise is at 5:48am, so I set my alarm at 5:30am. I wake up at the sound of the alarm and stumble out to the balcony hoping to catch a glimpse of glory. Lo and behold, it was hazy, due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}