{"id":672,"date":"2010-08-06T07:24:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T14:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.russbishop.com\/blog\/?p=672"},"modified":"2016-04-05T15:58:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T22:58:11","slug":"columbia-river-gorge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/columbia-river-gorge\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia River Gorge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/russbishop.photoshelter.com\/img-show\/I0000SbiX0xTkldc\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"904325hx.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000SbiX0xTkldc\/s\/400\/614\/904325hx.jpg\" alt=\"Latourell Falls, Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Oregon. (Russ Bishop\/Russ Bishop Photography)\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area\u00a0on the Washington-Oregon border east of Portland is a paradise for water-sport enthusiasts, history buffs, and photographers alike. \u00a0This\u00a0magical corridor, which\u00a0provided Lewis and Clark\u00a0safe passage through the Cascades during their journey to the Pacific,\u00a0\u00a0today plays host to world-class windsurfing,\u00a0fine\u00a0wine making, and includes some of the most beautiful waterfalls in North America.<\/p>\n<p>Latourell Falls pictured here is an icon of the area and one of numerous waterfalls that dot the historic Columbia River Highway. As America&#8217;s first scenic roadway, this national historic landmark is an engineering marvel from the last century and as much a destination as the lush grottos, cascades\u00a0and temperate forests that surround it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area\u00a0on the Washington-Oregon border east of Portland is a paradise for water-sport enthusiasts, history buffs, and photographers alike. \u00a0This\u00a0magical corridor, which\u00a0provided Lewis and Clark\u00a0safe passage through the Cascades during their journey to the Pacific,\u00a0\u00a0today plays host to world-class windsurfing,\u00a0fine\u00a0wine making, and includes some of the most beautiful waterfalls in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/columbia-river-gorge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Columbia River Gorge&#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":[61,173,20],"tags":[151,149,155,156,157,93,54,150,46,49],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-landscape-photography","category-travel","tag-cascades","tag-columbia-river-gorge","tag-columbia-river-highway","tag-latourell-falls","tag-lewis-and-clark","tag-oregon","tag-pacific-northwest","tag-portland","tag-water","tag-waterfall"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","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=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}