{"id":198,"date":"2015-05-18T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T01:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2015-05-18T01:00:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T01:00:52","slug":"sunset-at-white-sands-national-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Sunset at White Sands National Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"

The next day, I made it to White Sands by 6:30. The ranger-lead stroll was scheduled to start at 7:00. I had a few minutes, so I drove the loop at the end of the road. It didn’t look too promising. The skies were cloudy and a cold wind was whipping the sand into the air. It felt uncomfortable on the skin, and I only had on shorts and a tee shirt. The weather forecast was for a little warmer temperatures than I was experiencing.<\/p>\n

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You can see the virga, which is precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the earth.<\/p>\n

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I watched and waited to see if the sun would come out.<\/p>\n

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A few times, I decided to leave and I headed for the exit. It was too chilly for me to stroll with the ranger. But, I kept catching a glimpse of the sky in my rear-view mirror and it would stop me in my tracks.<\/p>\n

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I kept turning around and parking. It was getting interesting.<\/p>\n

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And then I left.<\/p>\n

What a splendid show our Sun put on for those of us lucky enough to be there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The next day, I made it to White Sands by 6:30. The ranger-lead stroll was scheduled to start at 7:00. I had a few minutes, so I drove the loop at the end of the road. It didn’t look too promising. The skies were cloudy and a cold wind was whipping the sand into the … Continue reading Sunset at White Sands National Monument<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}