{"id":1283,"date":"2011-02-18T07:51:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T15:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.russbishop.com\/blog\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2015-11-05T19:05:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T03:05:57","slug":"bristlecone-pines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/bristlecone-pines\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristlecone Pines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/russbishop.photoshelter.com\/img-show\/I0000UhkFibIDxCA\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"910323hx.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000UhkFibIDxCA\/s\/350\/535\/910323hx.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Ancient Bristlecone pines in the Patriarch Grove,\u00a0White Mountains, California<\/em><\/p>\n<p>California is a land of superlatives and nowhere is this more pronounced than along the eastern escarpment of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. From the lofty summit of Mount Whitney at nearly 15,000 feet (the highest point in the lower 48) \u00a0to the barren plain of Badwater in Death Valley at 282 feet below sea level is a distance of\u00a0just over\u00a0100 miles.<\/p>\n<p>The Owens Valley, which lies between them, is the deepest chasm in North America, and\u00a0to the east\u00a0on the barren upper slopes of\u00a0the White Mountains\u00a0the oldest living trees on earth cling to life in this other-worldly landscape.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9Russ Bishop\/All Rights Reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient Bristlecone pines in the Patriarch Grove,\u00a0White Mountains, California California is a land of superlatives and nowhere is this more pronounced than along the eastern escarpment of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. From the lofty summit of Mount Whitney at nearly 15,000 feet (the highest point in the lower 48) \u00a0to the barren plain of Badwater &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/bristlecone-pines\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bristlecone Pines&#8221;<\/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":[38,173,8],"tags":[88,15,55,72,252,14,251,161],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-landscape-photography","category-nature-photography","tag-bristlecone-pine","tag-california","tag-forest","tag-mountains","tag-patriarch-grove","tag-sierra-nevada","tag-trees","tag-white-mountains"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}