{"id":3960,"date":"2020-06-25T15:17:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T00:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/?p=3960"},"modified":"2020-06-25T15:17:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T00:47:21","slug":"town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/?p=3960","title":{"rendered":"Town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was out and about, driving around town, when I noticed how splendid the clouds were against the blue, blue sky.  So as I was somewhat nearby, I decided to drive to the overlook in one of the city parks.  This land was useless for any practical purpose, so the town founder (an abolitionist, please leave his statue alone) donated this spot to the city for this park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palme-769x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palme-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palme-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palme-768x1022.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palme-1154x1536.jpg 1154w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palme-1539x2048.jpg 1539w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palme-scaled.jpg 1923w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love looking at clouds, but perhaps I should look more at the roads.   \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"848\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palmer-848x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palmer-848x1024.jpg 848w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palmer-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palmer-768x927.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palmer-1273x1536.jpg 1273w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palmer-1697x2048.jpg 1697w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To the north, that tiny blue bump on the horizon is Castle Rock, the next major city up the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"740\" src=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palmer1-1024x740.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palmer1-1024x740.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palmer1-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palmer1-768x555.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palmer1-1536x1111.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palmer1-2048x1481.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The north of town.  The lighter area  in the middle of this picture on the mountain is a quarry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"672\" src=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palmer2-1024x672.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palmer2-1024x672.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palmer2-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palmer2-768x504.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palmer2-1536x1008.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palmer2-2048x1344.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The peak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"673\" src=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palmer3-1024x673.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palmer3-1024x673.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palmer3-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palmer3-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palmer3-1536x1010.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/palmer3-2048x1346.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The south end of town.  This mountain has a secret (well it&#8217;s not exactly a secret) military base inside of it, that goes back a mile into the rock.   There are lots of television transmitters, etc. on the top.   At the foot of the mountain is an army base.  The light colored blob on the right hand side of this photo is our beautiful downtown, which is the hip new place to be (depending on who one asks).    In between all of these shots are the places that people live and work and go about their business.   And it is actually a great place to live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was out and about, driving around town, when I noticed how splendid the clouds were against the blue, blue sky. So as I was somewhat nearby, I decided to drive to the overlook in one of the city parks. This land was useless for any practical purpose, so the town founder (an abolitionist, please &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/?p=3960\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Town<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-town"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3966,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions\/3966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}