{"id":9391,"date":"2014-07-10T17:31:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T00:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=9391"},"modified":"2014-07-10T18:32:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T01:32:04","slug":"grand-canyon-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/10\/grand-canyon-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A Grand Canyon Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapquest.com\/travel\/articles\/grand-canyon-arizona-mather-point-20927594http:\/\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9392 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/grand.jpg\" alt=\"Grand Canyon: Mapquest\" width=\"570\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/grand.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/grand-300x131.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was so delighted to go to the Grand Canyon to work on this story, it was a dream assignment. And it felt like everyone I met was in on making the day be nothing short of perfect. America&#8217;s National Park&#8217;s&#8230; there&#8217;s nothing better. That&#8217;s my story, I&#8217;m sticking to it, thanks, Teddy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This grab-and-go of Grand Canyon memories is exactly what I want to avoid. When I was very young, my father drove our family\u2014my mom, two siblings, me\u2014across the United States from New Jersey to California. On the way, we stopped at the Grand Canyon. I have a pale vision of standing at the railing looking across the chasm for a moment, and then we were back on the highway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole story <a title=\"Take a Good Long Look at the Grand Canyon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mapquest.com\/travel\/articles\/grand-canyon-arizona-mather-point-20927594\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a7<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><strong>Summer Pledge Drive<\/strong>: Thrilled to report that readers have covered about 60% of my dental costs, including providing a 100% reader funded dental insurance plan! If you\u2019d still like to help or want to know more, go <a title=\"Summer Pledge Drive\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/about-nerds-eye-view\/summer-pledge-drive\/\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was so delighted to go to the Grand Canyon to work on this story, it was a dream assignment. And it felt like everyone I met was in on making the day be nothing short of perfect. America&#8217;s National Park&#8217;s&#8230; there&#8217;s nothing better. That&#8217;s my story, I&#8217;m sticking to it, thanks, Teddy. This grab-and-go &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"A Grand Canyon Story\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/10\/grand-canyon-story\/#more-9391\" aria-label=\"Read more about A Grand Canyon Story\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elsewhere","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9391"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9399,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9391\/revisions\/9399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}