{"id":740,"date":"2007-01-14T23:18:33","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T07:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/?p=740"},"modified":"2013-04-19T10:58:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T17:58:49","slug":"the-bizarro-world-of-joshua-tree-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/the-bizarro-world-of-joshua-tree-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bizarro World of Joshua Tree National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" onmouseout='src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/011407a.jpg\"' onmouseover='src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/011407b.jpg\"' src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/011407a.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=1000 border=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n<p><center>[<a href=\"javascript:fotopopup('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/011407\/index.html',1280,980)\">JOSHUA TREE 2007 PHOTO GALLERY 1280&#215;980<\/a>]<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Hit the desert for a few days and I can honestly say it&#8217;s rather strange being off of the grid. As in no computer and no phone at all. No access if I even wanted it. Strangest is no cell phone. No signal whatsoever. You kind of look down at your phone, &#8220;&#8230;that can&#8217;t be?&#8221; There&#8217;s nobody here.<\/p>\n<p>The tree above was huge, for a joshua, and had a really full canopy. Which is unusual as they usually just have a few arms coming off and occasionally topple because they get out of balance. Hiked around a lot and shot a photo of this Scottish gentleman who said &#8220;Can you shoot a photo of me, they&#8217;ll never believe this back home!&#8221; He was all jazzed about the dam. A small reservoir built in the 1900&#8217;s. Not sure why he was all excited but he&#8217;s got the picture now. Hung out a bit at Cap Rock and remembered the truly bizarre happening of Gram Parker&#8217;s body being stolen from LAX airport, driven out here and set alight at the base of the rocks. Classic weirdness. Full story here [<a href='http:\/\/ebni.com\/byrds\/memgrp6.html'>LINK<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Stayed at a little motel in 29 Palms and as I was leaving, I checked under the bed to make sure I didn&#8217;t kick anything under it, what did I find? A DVD of Pam Anderson&#8217;s movie &#8220;Barb Wire&#8221;. There are some things in life you don&#8217;t want even if they&#8217;re free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[JOSHUA TREE 2007 PHOTO GALLERY 1280&#215;980] Hit the desert for a few days and I can honestly say it&#8217;s rather strange being off of the grid. As in no computer and no phone at all. No access if I even wanted it. Strangest is no cell phone. No signal whatsoever. You kind of look down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MOCs-bW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3352,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/3352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}