{"id":7263,"date":"2017-09-01T17:27:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T00:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2017\/09\/01\/la-junta-southeastern-colorado\/"},"modified":"2017-09-01T17:27:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T00:27:42","slug":"la-junta-southeastern-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2017\/09\/01\/la-junta-southeastern-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"La Junta, Southeastern Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/la-junta-se-colorado.jpg' title='La Junta'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/la-junta-se-colorado.jpg' alt='La Junta' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, after &#8220;gettin&#8217; outa Dodge,&#8221; we headed west on US 50 along the route to our next stop. The trip was mostly uneventful, with a little rain an hour into the drive with clearing the rest of the way.<\/p>\n<p>The road west on US 50 took us through numerous little Kansas and Colorado towns. All very scenic with the usual crops, cattle feed lots and creeks, rivers and railways. <\/p>\n<p>At one point, Damsel had her camera pointed at a passing <a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bnsf.jpg' title='BNSF locomotive'>BNSF locomotive<\/a> with flatcars behind. The crew must have seen her with the camera, because when they passed us, they blew the diesel electric rig&#8217;s deafening horn. That startled us at first but then we both laughed. There was no RR crossing when they did that.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re now parked in the KOA and enjoying our evening. Tomorrow, we visit some more ancestors&#8217; graves in Pueblo, CO and then on south into New Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, after &#8220;gettin&#8217; outa Dodge,&#8221; we headed west on US 50 along the route to our next stop. The trip was mostly uneventful, with a little&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement","category-wanderlust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263","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\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}