{"id":751,"date":"2010-07-19T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/2010\/07\/19\/the-spiral-jetty-and-the-great-salt-lake\/"},"modified":"2010-07-27T17:16:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T23:16:48","slug":"the-spiral-jetty-and-the-great-salt-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/2010\/07\/19\/the-spiral-jetty-and-the-great-salt-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spiral Jetty and the Great Salt Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/wpid-2010-07-18-16.47.57.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/wpid-2010-07-18-16.35.00.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ever since first hearing about the Spiral Jetty, I wanted to visit it. To those that haven&#8217;t heard of it before, the Spiral Jetty is a large, outdoor art construction in the middle of nowhere, a spiral made of boulders that stretches into the Great Salt Lake. Sometimes it&#8217;s visible; other times, it&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p>We stopped off to see the Spiral Jetty on our way down to Park City, Utah. The road out to the lake was even rougher than I had heard, but the end more than justified the means.<\/p>\n<p>Walking around the edge of the Great Salt Lake, the dried salt layer cracks beneath your feet, looking and sounding a lot like ice, except for shallow pools of multi-colored briny water beneath.<\/p>\n<p>The Spiral Jetty impressed me more than I expected. The size of the piece matches the landscape, a cosmic, natural, and human shape, the spiral, reaching out into a seemingly infinite shallow sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since first hearing about the Spiral Jetty, I wanted to visit it. To those that haven&#8217;t heard of it before, the Spiral Jetty is a large, outdoor art construction in the middle of nowhere, a spiral made of boulders that stretches into the Great Salt Lake. Sometimes it&#8217;s visible; other times, it&#8217;s not. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[128,226,138],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-128","tag-travel","tag-utah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}