{"id":20959,"date":"2017-09-04T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=20959"},"modified":"2017-09-03T23:00:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T03:00:18","slug":"jim-pic-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2017\/09\/jim-pic-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim pic 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2025.jpg\" alt=\"view from the top, Badlands South Dakota by James L. Kramer\" width=\"730\" height=\"487\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20960\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>I am almost positive this is facing in the opposite direction as the previous Jim pics, the view from the top of the trail up those curious hills. The landscape is actually a little enigmatic, since it appears to be the result of erosion yet is amazingly flat for such circumstances, and the rock that looks soft and crumbly is likely much, much harder than the &#8216;bedrock&#8217; layer that serves as the present &#8216;ground level.&#8217; What I&#8217;m trying to say here is that I <em>should<\/em> look up the geologic history of the Badlands of South Dakota but can&#8217;t be bothered to right now &#8211; time is still not something that I have an excess of. Jim can do it &#8211; he&#8217;s got plenty of spare time.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, we&#8217;ll take a look at the center of the image, and notice the road cutting across about halfway between the horizon and the bottom of the frame, lending a little bit of scale to the landscape. You can even see the parking area right at the end of that striated ridge in the center. Here&#8217;s an enlarged inset to assist<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2025-inset.jpg\" alt=\"inset of previous photo by James L. Kramer\" width=\"730\" height=\"432\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20961\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>In fact, I&#8217;m pretty certain that&#8217;s Jim&#8217;s truck down there, since I can see some notes on the roadmap on the dash that looks like his handwriting. What do you mean, you can&#8217;t make that out? Just keep hitting the &#8216;Enhance&#8217; key on your CSI photo editing software&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am almost positive this is facing in the opposite direction as the previous Jim pics, the view from the top of the trail up those curious hills. The landscape is actually a little enigmatic, since it appears to be the result of erosion yet is amazingly flat for such circumstances, and the rock that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[4043,4058,1257,4013],"class_list":["post-20959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-badlands","tag-im-lying-jim-wouldnt-use-paper-maps","tag-james-l-kramer","tag-south-dakota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}