{"id":10667,"date":"2016-12-12T21:20:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T02:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=10667"},"modified":"2016-12-12T21:20:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T02:20:25","slug":"salton-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=10667","title":{"rendered":"THE SALTON SEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salton_Sea\">THE SALTON SEA<\/a>\u00a0is reputedly 230 feet below sea level. Death valley is 279 feet below sea level. It is a curious place that shares some quirks with Mono lake. It was created in 1907 when the Colorado river overflowed; and \u00a0dying a slow death ever since. Still a resting place for many migrating birds.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10681\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10681\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10681\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131392-1024x840.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131392-1024x840.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131392-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131392-768x630.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131392.jpg 1789w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SAND HILL CRANES<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10677\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10677\" style=\"width: 626px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10677\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131309-626x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"626\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131309-626x1024.jpg 626w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131309-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131309-768x1256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131309-300x491.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131309.jpg 1575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BLUE HERON<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10675\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10675\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10675\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131283-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131283-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131283-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131283-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SNOW GEESE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10669\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10669\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10669\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131150-1024x634.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131150-1024x634.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131150-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131150-768x476.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131150-825x510.jpg 825w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131150.jpg 1384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BEACHES OF DEAD BARNACLES<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10672\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10672\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10672\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131229-Version-2-1024x781.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131229-Version-2-1024x781.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131229-Version-2-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131229-Version-2-768x585.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131229-Version-2.jpg 1817w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10672\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">POWER LINES<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10683\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10683\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10683\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131459-762x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131459-762x1024.jpg 762w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131459-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131459-768x1032.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131459-300x403.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/salton-sea-12-12-16-131459.jpg 987w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SAND HILL CRANES<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE SALTON SEA\u00a0is reputedly 230 feet below sea level. Death valley is 279 feet below sea level. It is a curious place that shares some quirks with Mono lake. It was created in 1907 when the Colorado river overflowed; and \u00a0dying a slow death ever since. Still a resting place for many migrating birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[453,2794],"tags":[2795],"class_list":["post-10667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-california","category-salton-sea","tag-salton-sea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10684,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10667\/revisions\/10684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}