{"id":911,"date":"2007-11-17T01:02:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T06:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/17\/the-wonderland-of-rocks\/"},"modified":"2007-11-17T01:02:14","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T06:02:14","slug":"the-wonderland-of-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=911","title":{"rendered":"The Wonderland of Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest benefits of being related to the Murdy clan is getting to tag along with experienced hikers everywhere we go. In fact, my in-laws are such hiking gurus, that they lead the local monthly Sierra Club hikes in Joshua Tree each season.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I will join them for this hike (no more pregnancy updates until Monday):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;November 17th&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Wonderland to Willow Hole.\u00c2\u00a0 Joshua Tree National Park If someone is waiting in the background for you to check Palm and Pine for a hike on this date, say the following out loud, \u00e2\u20ac\u009dHere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good one: we can go cross country with the Murdys in Joshua Tree National Park in a place called The Wonderland of Rocks.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a shuttle hike from Barker Dam, north to a couple of rock art sites and then to Willow Hole.\u00c2\u00a0 Lunch there and a walk out through the Wonderland wash about six miles, on the strenuous side, and involves boulder scrambling.\u00c2\u00a0 Probably a couple of hundred feet altitude gain.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bring lunch, snacks, and at least two liters of liquid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am happily escaping to Joshua Tree for the day to scramble, hike, talk, and be in the wilderness. I love me a strenuous hike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest benefits of being related to the Murdy clan is getting to tag along with experienced hikers everywhere we go. In fact, my in-laws are such hiking gurus, that they lead the local monthly Sierra Club hikes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=911\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}