{"id":5074,"date":"2012-02-10T17:18:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T00:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=5074"},"modified":"2012-02-10T17:21:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T00:21:51","slug":"tucson-gem-and-mineral-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/tucson-gem-and-mineral-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucson Gem and Mineral Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC_7316.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5076\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC_7316.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC_7316.jpg 433w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC_7316-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Tucson Gem and Mineral show is the place to awaken your inner child. You can see the sensational and the humble, the flashy and the fossilized. We like to go on the School Day because vendors bring out boxes of rocks for $1 or $2. We give each child $5 and they can collect quite an assortment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC_7319.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5078\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC_7319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC_7319.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC_7319-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year they had Geronimo&#8217;s rifle and Wyatt Earp&#8217;s pistol on display. Mark was simply amazed (wink). We had to wait a full 5 minutes to muscle our way through all the old history buffs to get this photo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC_7318.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5077\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC_7318.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC_7318.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC_7318-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mark was my buddy and we sifted through a lot of rocks together to find just the right ones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC_7315.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5075\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC_7315.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC_7315.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC_7315-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Richard came with us this year and this means we have some photos of the event. Do you like rocks? You should come next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tucson Gem and Mineral show is the place to awaken your inner child. You can see the sensational and the humble, the flashy and the fossilized. We like to go on the School Day because vendors bring out boxes of rocks for $1 or $2. We give each child $5 and they can collect &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/tucson-gem-and-mineral-show\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tucson Gem and Mineral Show<\/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":[13,17,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-time","category-fun-finds","category-homeschooling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074","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=5074"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5084,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074\/revisions\/5084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}