{"id":3289,"date":"2011-03-30T05:58:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T12:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/?p=3289"},"modified":"2013-05-15T06:34:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T13:34:01","slug":"the-no-wildflowers-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/the-no-wildflowers-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"The No Wildflowers Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110330.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Hikers at Fort McDowell Climbing Wall\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110330-188x125.jpg\" width=\"188\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a>So what do you do when you have to lead a wildflower hike (this past Sunday) and there are no flowers? You wing it! Lucky for me, I had two great assistants. Botanist Steve Jones entertained everyone with flora trivia and Chris Rutz filled us in on the ranching history of this area and gave us a climbing lesson. In this photo, he&#8217;s pointing out anchors embedded in the rock to which a rope is connected. Before Chris started climbing, I always thought climbers used the rope to pull themselves up but it is there strictly for safety in case they fall. All in all, a really fun morning! Thanks again, Steve and Chris \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what do you do when you have to lead a wildflower hike (this past Sunday) and there are no flowers? You wing it! Lucky for me, I had two great assistants. Botanist Steve Jones entertained everyone with flora trivia and Chris Rutz filled us in on the ranching history of this area and gave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,58,57],"tags":[608,74,22,988,184,607],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3289"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3304,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions\/3304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}