{"id":25064,"date":"2017-11-08T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/?p=25064"},"modified":"2017-11-08T11:14:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T17:14:04","slug":"from-the-archive-a-longs-sunset-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/2017\/11\/08\/from-the-archive-a-longs-sunset-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Archive: A Long&#8217;s Sunset (2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25065\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25065\" style=\"width: 1320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeyoflight.com\/photo\/a-longs-sunset\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9149-longs-sunset.jpg\" alt=\"Long&#039;s Peak&#039;s western face glows with the last warm hues of sunset.\" width=\"1320\" height=\"880\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25065\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9149-longs-sunset.jpg 1320w, http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9149-longs-sunset-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9149-longs-sunset-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9149-longs-sunset-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9149-longs-sunset-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9149-longs-sunset-700x467.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1320px) 100vw, 1320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Longs Sunset<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I captured this image in 2008 when there was a beautiful sunset glow on Long&#8217;s Peak as it was surrounded by puffy clouds.  Long&#8217;s Peak is the tallest peak in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado and an imposing presence on the eastern side of the park and from the tundra.  As I reflect on this image, I remember wondering at the time what it would look to be standing on the top of this majestic 14&#8217;er witnessing this sunset.  This thought stuck with me and it compelled me to climb this peak a few years later, a view that was just as grand as I imagined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I captured this image in 2008 when there was a beautiful sunset glow on Long&#8217;s Peak as it was surrounded by puffy clouds. Long&#8217;s Peak is the tallest peak in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado and an imposing presence on the eastern side of the park and from the tundra. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,101,189,119,128,130,30,36,140,49,51],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-25064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clouds","category-fall","category-from-the-archives","category-landscape","category-mountains","category-nature","category-photograph","category-rocky-mountain-national-park-colorado","category-sky","category-sun","category-sunset","tag-landscape","column","twocol","has-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25064"}],"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=25064"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25068,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25064\/revisions\/25068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}