{"id":782874,"date":"2012-03-30T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T19:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/?p=782874"},"modified":"2012-03-28T18:54:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T01:54:31","slug":"carlsbad-caverns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/carlsbad-caverns\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbad Caverns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have long wanted to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/cave\/index.htm\">Carlsbad Caverns<\/a> and see the bats. Well, I got half my wish&#8211;I finally had the opportunity to see the cave but there weren&#8217;t any bats.<\/p>\n<p>We went on the self-guided tour through the Big Room. It was absolutely stunning. I was so glad to finally see it for myself, and that my family was getting the opportunity to see it too.<\/p>\n<p>Now you can take a photo tour of the cave with us, thanks to my husband and his camera.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Carlsbad by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/6940147745\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7053\/6940147745_b0cf1aa7b2.jpg\" alt=\"Carlsbad\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Carlsbad by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/6940147835\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7178\/6940147835_e372a65fdc.jpg\" alt=\"Carlsbad\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Carlsbad by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/6940147895\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7040\/6940147895_a1f256fec8.jpg\" alt=\"Carlsbad\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Carlsbad by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/6940147973\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7208\/6940147973_fc7781167c.jpg\" alt=\"Carlsbad\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Carlsbad by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/6794033742\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7064\/6794033742_6ffcfa8efe.jpg\" alt=\"Carlsbad\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Carlsbad by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/6940148109\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7049\/6940148109_3dd9721b81.jpg\" alt=\"Carlsbad\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Carlsbad by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/6940148175\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7204\/6940148175_319c95d6fa.jpg\" alt=\"Carlsbad\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Family in Carlsbad by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/6940148253\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7055\/6940148253_0bac83e3a2.jpg\" alt=\"Family in Carlsbad\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which one is your favorite? Now don&#8217;t you want to go there too? It really is one of the amazing natural wonders of this country.<\/p>\n<p>The three big kids also earned their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/cave\/forkids\/beajuniorranger.htm\">Junior Ranger Badges<\/a>. So we were able to count this as a good solid school day! Here are three proud Junior Rangers with their books, certificates and badges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Carlsbad Junior Rangers by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/7025519629\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7225\/7025519629_4ef565901a.jpg\" alt=\"Carlsbad Junior Rangers\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have long wanted to visit Carlsbad Caverns and see the bats. Well, I got half my wish&#8211;I finally had the opportunity to see the cave but there weren&#8217;t any bats. We went on the self-guided tour through the Big Room. It was absolutely stunning. I was so glad to finally see it for myself, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782874"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782874"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782878,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782874\/revisions\/782878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}