{"id":6551,"date":"2015-04-19T21:16:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T04:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/04\/19\/arizona-desert-mining-town\/"},"modified":"2015-04-19T21:16:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T04:16:22","slug":"arizona-desert-mining-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/04\/19\/arizona-desert-mining-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Desert Mining Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/desert-mining-town.jpg' title='Desert Mining Town'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/desert-mining-town.jpg' alt='Desert Mining Town' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After we took the dogs to the groomer yesterday, we had a couple of hours to ourselves. We decided to head over to an old mining town (and tourist trap) about 25 miles west of Wickenburg.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, when we got there after driving 28 miles on pavement and another 2 miles on dirt, we found that the attraction was closed for the day having been reserved for a photo shoot by some unknown enterprise. We noted a large number of California license plates on the vehicles parked there.<\/p>\n<p>The cowboy that ran things told us that they didn&#8217;t have time to notify the media of the closing. He was very apologetic and assured us that if we were to come back on a normal visiting day that he would waive the admission and guided tour fee. I guess we will take him up on that sometime in the near future, before the desert heat gets too out of hand.<\/p>\n<p>The place is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westerndestinations.com\/western-destinations-robsons-ranch.html\">Robson&#8217;s Ranch &#038; Mining Camp<\/a>. We will probably take a trip out there soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After we took the dogs to the groomer yesterday, we had a couple of hours to ourselves. We decided to head over to an old mining&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,37,26,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-culture","category-entertainment","category-wanderlust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}