{"id":4968,"date":"2011-05-06T03:03:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T02:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2011-05-06T03:44:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T02:44:26","slug":"hot-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=4968","title":{"rendered":"Hot stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve done so much in the last couple of weeks, seen so many different aspects of California, that it&#8217;s getting difficult to\u00a0separate\u00a0them all out and maintain a proper sense of perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Especially difficult &#8211; when talking about Las Vegas in particular &#8211; to maintain a proper sense of perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to balance the over-hype of galactic proportions and the obvious lack of taste, with the openness and generosity of the people and the natural beauty of the surrounding countryside, is very difficult.<\/p>\n<p>So instead, here&#8217;s a few (clickable for larger images) snapshots, to do it for me.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4969\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4969\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4969\" href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=4969\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4969\" title=\"Los Angeles\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/\/DSCN1479-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCN1479-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCN1479-1024x766.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The New York skyline - in Las Vegas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4970\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4970\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4970\" href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=4970\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4970\" title=\"Grand Canyon\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/\/DSCN1484-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCN1484-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCN1484-1024x766.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The awesome view from inside the Grand Canyon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4971\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4971\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4971\" href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=4971\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4971\" title=\"Eurocopter EC 130\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/\/DSCN1495-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCN1495-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCN1495-1024x766.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our ride in to the Grand Canyon. And back out!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4972\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4972\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4972\" href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=4972\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4972\" title=\"Boulder Dam\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/\/DSCN1499-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCN1499-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCN1499-1024x766.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boulder Dam - amazing place<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Las Vegas. We&#8217;ve done so much in the last couple of weeks, seen so many different aspects of California, that it&#8217;s getting difficult to\u00a0separate\u00a0them all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}