{"id":16675,"date":"2019-04-07T23:30:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T05:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=16675"},"modified":"2019-04-08T14:04:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T20:04:57","slug":"canyonlands-needles-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/canyonlands-needles-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Canyonlands, Needles District"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC_7081-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16676\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC_7081-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC_7081-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC_7081-768x512.jpg 768w, 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src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC_7190-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16684\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC_7190-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC_7190-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC_7190-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC_7190.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2019-04-06-Canylonlands-April-2019-008-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16697\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2019-04-06-Canylonlands-April-2019-008-1024x683.jpg 1024w, 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In the silence of the land, I walked a little with God and told him things I really want to do and felt his blessing. In the light of the temple, I saw more clearly who my sons are, and who they are becoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A neighbor observed that the views we seek most often are valleys, not mountains. I think we love the view of a valley because it reminds us how far we have come. We are ascending, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC_7076-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16691\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC_7076-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC_7076-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC_7076-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC_7076.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the shadow of sandstone formations, I watched the boys scale almost every surface they could. In the silence of the land, I walked a little with God and told him things I really want to do and felt his blessing. In the light of the temple, I saw more clearly who my sons are, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/canyonlands-needles-district\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Canyonlands, Needles District<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,13,20,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventurous-kids","category-extended-family","category-family-time","category-life-according-to-angela","category-temple-and-family-history-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16675"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16698,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16675\/revisions\/16698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}