{"id":8979,"date":"2014-09-13T18:56:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T23:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=8979"},"modified":"2014-09-13T18:56:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T23:56:17","slug":"oregon-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=8979","title":{"rendered":"OREGON TRAIL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Probably the first time I heard of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oregon_Trail\">Oregon Trail<\/a> was a western movie. It was much later before I heard about the Oregon Trail in school; and it was this summer I actually saw it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8984\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8984\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24373.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8984\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24373-1024x892.jpg\" alt=\"QUARTER HORSES\" width=\"558\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24373-1024x892.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24373-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24373.jpg 1408w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">QUARTER HORSES<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8983\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8983\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24357.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8983\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24357-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"LONG ROAD\" width=\"558\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24357-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24357-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LONG ROAD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8982\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8982\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/vale-8-19-14-24461.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8982\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/vale-8-19-14-24461-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"EAST OF THE STORM\" width=\"558\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/vale-8-19-14-24461-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/vale-8-19-14-24461-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EAST OF THE STORM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8981\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8981\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/vale-8-19-14-24434.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8981\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/vale-8-19-14-24434-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"NOT NEWPORT\" width=\"558\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/vale-8-19-14-24434-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/vale-8-19-14-24434-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOT NEWPORT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8980\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8980\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24418.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8980\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24418-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"VULTURES\" width=\"558\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24418-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24418-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">VULTURES<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8985\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8985\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24391.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8985\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24391-1024x641.jpg\" alt=\"THE DESERT IN THE HIGH DESERT\" width=\"558\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24391-1024x641.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24391-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24391.jpg 1990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">THE DESERT IN THE HIGH DESERT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8986\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8986\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24395.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8986\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24395-1024x594.jpg\" alt=\"CROWS\" width=\"558\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24395-1024x594.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24395-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24395.jpg 1468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CROWS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8987\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8987\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24411.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8987\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24411-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"STORM COMING\" width=\"558\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24411-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24411-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">STORM COMING<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8988\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24355.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8988\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24355-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"OREGON TRAIL\" width=\"558\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24355-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/high-desert-badlands-8-19-14-24355-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OREGON TRAIL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably the first time I heard of the Oregon Trail was a western movie. It was much later before I heard about the Oregon Trail in school; and it was this summer I actually saw it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2115,2127,345,1353,1427],"tags":[2086,2686],"class_list":["post-8979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-oregon-trail","category-photography","category-places","category-travel","tag-high-desert","tag-oregon-trail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979","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=8979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8989,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions\/8989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}