{"id":1051,"date":"2017-05-10T20:46:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T20:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moablog.com\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2017-05-28T15:49:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T15:49:05","slug":"dinosaur-diamond-isnt-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moablog.com\/?p=1051","title":{"rendered":"Dinosaur Diamond isn&#8217;t baseball&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I finally got a chance to see the new <a href=\"http:\/\/moabgiants.com\">dinosaur place<\/a> just north of town. Now I see why it took a long time to build &#8211; it&#8217;s quite elaborate. Besides the obvious scientific research it took to recreate these critters, they&#8217;ve inserted some drama into the displays as well. Particularly cool was the aquarium exhibit (see video excerpt) I enjoyed the time spent there and will go again.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UmPBEDtG6pQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I recently went through the northern parts of the Dinosaur Diamond (The Dinosaur Diamond Scenic Byway is a 512-mile-long National Scenic Byway in the U.S. states of Utah and Colorado. The highway forms a diamond-shaped loop with vertices at Moab, Helper, Vernal and Grand Junction. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dinosaur_Diamond_Scenic_Byway\">Wikipedia Article about Dinosaur Diamond<\/a>) and saw how popular the whole subject of dinosaurs is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I finally got a chance to see the new dinosaur place just north of town. Now I see why it took a long time to build &#8211; it&#8217;s quite elaborate. Besides the obvious scientific research it took to recreate these critters, they&#8217;ve inserted some drama into the displays as well. Particularly cool was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moablog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moablog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moablog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moablog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moablog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moablog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/moablog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moablog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moablog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moablog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}