{"id":74,"date":"2015-03-02T17:16:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T17:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/?p=74"},"modified":"2015-03-02T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T17:29:10","slug":"how-to-make-negative-forward-progress-but-still-have-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/2015\/03\/02\/how-to-make-negative-forward-progress-but-still-have-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make negative forward progress but still have fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are reading this blog, you probably have figured out that I am intending on making my way across the country from San Francisco along the northern part of the country via Oregon and Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>So of course, I am taking the &#8216;direct&#8217; route and immediately headed south to visit family &#8211; in Solvang CA \u00a0(Pete and Tenley). \u00a0The drive down was easy, but I did get hit with sporadic showers, heavy down pours and one time really heavy hail which slowed traffic on the Interstate down to a crawl &#8211; I was able to see over an inch of ice accumulation on the road &#8211; then &#8220;poof&#8221; and we came through the other side. \u00a0Any rain at this point in California is welcome but I don&#8217;t think the sporadic nature of this particular storm will put much of a dent in the drought.<\/p>\n<p>Photo below is\u00a0of the morning fog here in the Santa Ynez Valley &#8211; a great way to greet the morning with a cup of coffee!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_76\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/feb2015-004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-76\" src=\"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/feb2015-004-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"looking south down towards the Santa Ynez River - early morning marine layer fog and quickly building cumulus clouds (possibly building to cumulonimbus latter in the day?)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/feb2015-004-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/feb2015-004-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-76\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">looking south down towards the Santa Ynez River &#8211; early morning marine layer fog and quickly building cumulus clouds (possibly building to cumulonimbus latter in the day?)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are reading this blog, you probably have figured out that I am intending on making my way across the country from San Francisco along the northern part of the country via Oregon and Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>So of course, I am taking the &#8216;direct&#8217; route and immediately headed south to visit family &#8211; in Solvang [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}