{"id":17473,"date":"2017-09-29T09:31:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T16:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=17473"},"modified":"2017-09-29T10:30:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T17:30:38","slug":"blue-basin-overlook-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/blue-basin-overlook-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Basin Overlook Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17474\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/179_2811-RAW-blue-basin-overlook-sheep-rock-john-day.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17474\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/179_2811-RAW-blue-basin-overlook-sheep-rock-john-day-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Sheep Rock Trails - John Day Fossil Beds National Monument\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/179_2811-RAW-blue-basin-overlook-sheep-rock-john-day-800x534.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/179_2811-RAW-blue-basin-overlook-sheep-rock-john-day-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/179_2811-RAW-blue-basin-overlook-sheep-rock-john-day-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue Basin Overlook Trail<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We went to two units of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument yesterday (Painted Hills Unit and Sheep Rock Unit). I already want to go back to do the unit we missed (Clarno Unit) and catch a few of the trails we didn&#8217;t have time for. We hiked 8 of the trails. Most were short (under a mile each) and flat. However, the Blue Basin Overlook Trail was over 3 miles and included 760 feet of elevation gain. That wouldn&#8217;t have been so bad if it was our first trail of the day, but it was our 7th. The views though&#8230; wow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to two units of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument yesterday (Painted Hills Unit and Sheep Rock Unit). I already want to go back to do the unit we missed (Clarno Unit) and catch a few of the trails we didn&#8217;t have time for. We hiked 8 of the trails. Most were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[17,723,447,539],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17477,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17473\/revisions\/17477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}