{"id":11971,"date":"2013-05-01T03:07:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T10:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=11971"},"modified":"2014-01-24T00:11:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T08:11:27","slug":"the-road-to-yosemite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/the-road-to-yosemite\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road to Yosemite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/tenyalo.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Barbara Steinberg<\/p>\n<p>We flee our urban environs by way of traffic-laden Highway 99. Sightings of an occasional raptor or egret remind us this was once a wilder realm. We are grateful when just beyond Merced, now on Hwy. 140, the landscape is suddenly pastoral. No track homes or strip malls. Just wide-open spaces, lush and green, neatly hemmed by nearly invisible barbwire fences. The carefully rowed orchards, and cattle\u00a0\u00a0lazily munching tender green shoots, comfort this weary traveler&#8217;s gaze. Slow rolling hills, stretching far&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/things-to-do\/fishcamp.html\">read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/information\/traveltips-sitemap-2013may.html\">2013 May<\/a> &gt;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Barbara Steinberg We flee our urban environs by way of traffic-laden Highway 99. Sightings of an occasional raptor or egret remind us this was once a wilder realm. We are grateful when just beyond Merced, now on Hwy. 140, the landscape is suddenly pastoral. No track homes or strip malls. Just wide-open spaces, lush [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11971"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}