{"id":9804,"date":"2022-10-01T17:39:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T00:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=9804"},"modified":"2023-01-19T11:24:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T19:24:43","slug":"porterville-insulator-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2022\/10\/01\/porterville-insulator-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Porterville Insulator Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the last several months, Henry had last Saturday circled on his calendar, as it was the year&#8217;s last scheduled gathering of insulator collectors in our region. That, of course, was not to be missed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus we headed out in the Westy after school, trucking out all the way past Fresno. We camped in dairy country at the ranch of a lovely couple named Frances and Henry, who kindly gave our Hen three insulators from his collection:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/i4N1AUTs2WnBuGFH7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"847\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"9811\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0123-1-847x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9811\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0123-1-847x1024.jpg 847w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0123-1-248x300.jpg 248w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0123-1-768x928.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0123-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 847px) 100vw, 847px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/i4N1AUTs2WnBuGFH7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"9812\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0124-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9812\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0124-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0124-1-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0124-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0124-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Afterwards we grabbed breakfast at a railway cafe that featured cute model trains running around the ceiling. From there we were off to the event, where Hen scored some great deals &amp; got to visit with his old friends. Check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/i4N1AUTs2WnBuGFH7\">gallery<\/a> from the outing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/i4N1AUTs2WnBuGFH7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0142-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9810\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0142-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0142-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0142-1-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0142-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, and here&#8217;s a little draggable 360\u00ba pano I captured at dawn with my drone:<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!4v1664592060742!6m8!1m7!1sCAoSLEFGMVFpcE4wZmJGenRCbzRZS1lEck9vMDlSNHNUbTBpUWdvUzVGY1FETVN2!2m2!1d36.2136488!2d-119.17170440000001!3f0!4f0!5f0.7820865974627469\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last several months, Henry had last Saturday circled on his calendar, as it was the year&#8217;s last scheduled gathering of insulator collectors in our region. That, of course, was not to be missed. Thus we headed out in the Westy after school, trucking out all the way past Fresno. We camped in dairy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,3,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insulators","category-photos","category-westy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804","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=9804"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9815,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804\/revisions\/9815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}