{"id":3398,"date":"2011-12-11T17:14:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T21:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=3398"},"modified":"2011-12-11T17:38:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T21:38:16","slug":"rock-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=3398","title":{"rendered":"Rock on!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking forward to today for a long time!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the annual Mammoth Mineral, Fossil and Gem show!  Groovy, baby!<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoy touching and lifting the big meteors and fossils.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-hZfbgkp\/0\/S\/IMG4956-S.jpg\" alt=\"j\" \/><br \/>\nAnd the minerals are so beautiful!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-HGVTXSH\/0\/S\/IMG4959-S.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-FCx35tP\/0\/S\/IMG4962-S.jpg\" alt=\"a\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fossils are groovy, baby!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-GF2Zj7C\/0\/S\/IMG4966-S.jpg\" alt=\"t\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-tptjg5N\/0\/S\/IMG4967-S.jpg\" alt=\"f\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-dT6L9Pv\/0\/S\/IMG4969-S.jpg\" alt=\"h\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-BP5dH4D\/0\/S\/IMG4970-S.jpg\" alt=\"f\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-dZ3B2Vd\/0\/S\/IMG4972-S.jpg\" alt=\"a\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-k254bf3\/0\/S\/IMG4974-S.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I got my own little meteorite.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-R3NS9kM\/0\/S\/IMG4952-S.jpg\" alt=\"m\" \/><br \/>\n Estimated 4.5 billion years old, from the asteroid belt.<\/p>\n<p>Fantastic minerals!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-j8RZ7QD\/0\/S\/IMG4990-S.jpg\" alt=\"m\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-RDM49zL\/0\/S\/IMG4991-S.jpg\" alt=\"q\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-kvfd7tL\/0\/S\/IMG4998-S.jpg\" alt=\"q\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-nzphNzB\/0\/S\/IMG5004-S.jpg\" alt=\"d\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And oddities!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-NCNsLcg\/0\/S\/IMG5000-S.jpg\" alt=\"b\" \/><br \/>\nWe enjoyed looking at the fossils the most.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-dP5C96h\/0\/S\/IMG4950-S.jpg\" alt=\"t\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-3dDngSH\/0\/S\/IMG4948-S.jpg\" alt=\"t\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fun day with a great son!<\/p>\n<p>I liked this pump.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-gqRdLKL\/0\/S\/IMG4937-S.jpg\" alt=\"p\" \/><br \/>\nPositive.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-Lfw6rmh\/0\/S\/IMG4938-S.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The cars at the rock show had some really different bumper stickers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-dpjvVgj\/0\/S\/IMG4941-S.jpg\" alt=\"j\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-kmwk6Mf\/0\/S\/IMG4940-S.jpg\" alt=\"o\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-SGbvrRG\/0\/S\/IMG4942-S.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-CF3sCzP\/0\/S\/IMG4944-S.jpg\" alt=\"t\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-MFp9Nqj\/0\/S\/IMG5005-S.jpg\" alt=\"e\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-bjbf7Bb\/0\/S\/IMG5006-S.jpg\" alt=\"z\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-25T7Cvf\/0\/S\/IMG5008-S.jpg\" alt=\"zb\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-PSqsDNr\/0\/S\/IMG5010-S.jpg\" alt=\"e\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Mammoth-Mineral-Fossil-and-Gem\/i-f2M8sHC\/0\/S\/IMG5009-S.jpg\" alt=\"w\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking forward to today for a long time! It&#8217;s the annual Mammoth Mineral, Fossil and Gem show! Groovy, baby! I really enjoy touching and lifting the big meteors and fossils. And the minerals are so beautiful! Fossils are groovy, baby! I got my own little meteorite. Estimated 4.5 billion years old, from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3400,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions\/3400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}