{"id":24137,"date":"2015-01-16T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/?p=24137"},"modified":"2015-01-16T11:00:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T17:00:47","slug":"photo-friday-the-lighthouse-at-minatare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/2015\/01\/16\/photo-friday-the-lighthouse-at-minatare\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Friday: The Lighthouse at Minatare"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The<\/a>
On Lake Minatare<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Lake Minatare in the panhandle of western Nebraska there is a lighthouse that doesn’t actually contain a light. The Lake Minatare Lighthouse is one of only seven inland lighthouses in the United States. It was built in the late 1930s by the Veterans Conservation Corps, a New Deal agency that provided jobs to unemployed veterans during the Great Depression. The 55 foot stone structure on a peninsula on the lake today it stands as a symbol of a former age. Last July I went to Lake Minatare to visit the lighthouse and climb to the top.<\/p>\n

\"Staircase<\/a>
Staircase at Lake Minatare<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As I climbed the stairs to the top, I found the walls to be very close. In fact, my shoulders touched both sides as I ascended. Definitely not something someone who is claustrophobia would want to do.<\/p>\n

\"Sunrise<\/a>
Sunrise on Lake Minatare<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A few minutes after I arrived at the top I saw witnessed a beautiful sunrise over the lake. As the sun rose in the east it lined up perfectly with the easternmost window at the top.<\/p>\n

\"Lighthouse<\/a>
Sunrise From the Lighthouse at Lake Minatare<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The view looking west.<\/p>\n

\"Lighthouse<\/a>
Lighthouse at Lake Minatare<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Lake Minatare in the panhandle of western Nebraska there is a lighthouse that doesn’t actually contain a light. The Lake Minatare Lighthouse is one of only seven inland lighthouses in the United States. It was built in the late 1930s by the Veterans Conservation Corps, a New Deal agency …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,119,29,30,48,52],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-24137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lake-minatare","category-landscape","category-photo-friday","category-photograph","category-summer","category-sunstar","tag-landscape","column","twocol","has-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}