{"id":2468,"date":"2011-05-21T12:18:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T20:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2011-05-24T07:09:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T15:09:07","slug":"more-giant-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2011\/05\/21\/more-giant-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"More giant tree adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jnack\/sets\/72157626634303211\/show\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/chandalierTree1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Chandalier Tree\" width=\"530\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2495\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/chandalierTree1.jpg 530w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/chandalierTree1-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a>If you&#8217;re going to drive hundreds of miles with small children, then lie in bed for hours while one jumps excitedly on each of your outstretched arms&#8230; well, you could pick a far worse destination than redwood-rich Northern California.<\/p>\n<p>Our trip up to Fortuna, CA saw us&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>stopping off to drive through the colossal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drivethrutree.com\/park.html\">Chandelier Tree<\/a><\/li>\n<li>picking up a toy ice cream &#038; VW for the boys (&#8220;Like&#8230; Jose&#8217;s Beetle!&#8221; says Hen)<\/li>\n<li>stopping for lunch beside a monster truck school bus, where the guys climbed onto a forklift (&#8220;Driving Guido!&#8221; from <em>Cars<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><em>losing<\/em> the ice cream truck at a gas station (big freak-out!!)<\/li>\n<li>amazingly, <em>finding<\/em> the truck at the same station the next day!!*<\/li>\n<li>listening to Henry narrate the Avenue of the Giants (&#8220;Tree tipped over, Dad-O. Scooper [garbage] truck did it.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Without further ado, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jnack\/sets\/72157626634303211\/show\">check out the gallery<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>* Finn recounted the experience rather breathlessly to Mom-O: &#8220;I was just <em>so excited<\/em> about it, I couldn&#8217;t even give the truck a <em>smooch!!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re going to drive hundreds of miles with small children, then lie in bed for hours while one jumps excitedly on each of your outstretched arms&#8230; well, you could pick a far worse destination than redwood-rich Northern California. Our trip up to Fortuna, CA saw us&#8230; stopping off to drive through the colossal Chandelier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2489,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions\/2489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}