{"id":1166,"date":"2020-05-26T12:38:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T12:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moablog.com\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2020-10-16T23:11:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T23:11:52","slug":"the-ants-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moablog.com\/?p=1166","title":{"rendered":"The Ants Are Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May this not discourage anybody from visiting Moab this weekend, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re being loved to death. It started two years ago, after the Moab Area Travel Council launched a nationwide advertising strategy to increase tourism in the canyon country. It worked. Well, I agree we&#8217;re living in a very picturesque and unique place, and visual advertising is especially effective in this area. I&#8217;ve been selling web pages to businesses here for 21 years so it&#8217;s no secret that pictures sell. But it&#8217;s worked too well. Time to back off.<a href=\"http:\/\/moablog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/archesentrance5737.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1172\" src=\"http:\/\/moablog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/archesentrance5737-800x451.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/moablog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/archesentrance5737-800x451.jpg 800w, https:\/\/moablog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/archesentrance5737-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/moablog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/archesentrance5737-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/moablog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/archesentrance5737.jpg 1136w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, that memorable and fateful Memorial Day weekend caused the Utah Highway Patrol to close the entrance to Arches National Park because the lines of cars were a traffic hazard. The latest newspaper quotes the UHP to expect 45 minutes to cross town &#8211; about three miles. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moabsunnews.com\/news\/article_3184dbcc-5f6c-11e8-ac82-1317d5c29460.html\">click here for story<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Well, apparently the Travel Council is still pumping 2.7 million dollars a year into ads. Apparently we don;&#8217;t have enough traffic yet. Is it time to back off? Or does the adventure-thirsty public entitled to their day in traffic?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s ironic that all those people want one thing. A little solitude in the backscape so close yet so far away.<\/p>\n<p>PS: As I write this, a semi truck drives down our obvious residential street. Not appropriate! This is the first and definitely not the last I&#8217;ve seen in this neighborhood.<a href=\"http:\/\/moablog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/dominosemi6062.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1174\" src=\"http:\/\/moablog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/dominosemi6062-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/moablog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/dominosemi6062-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/moablog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/dominosemi6062-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/moablog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/dominosemi6062-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/moablog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/dominosemi6062.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May this not discourage anybody from visiting Moab this weekend, but&#8230; We&#8217;re being loved to death. It started two years ago, after the Moab Area Travel Council launched a nationwide advertising strategy to increase tourism in the canyon country. It worked. Well, I agree we&#8217;re living in a very picturesque and unique place, and visual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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\/1166"}],"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=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moablog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1175,"href":"https:\/\/moablog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moablog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moablog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moablog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}