{"id":81,"date":"2004-07-30T10:31:15","date_gmt":"2004-07-30T16:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=81"},"modified":"2004-07-30T10:31:15","modified_gmt":"2004-07-30T16:31:15","slug":"new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/2004\/07\/30\/new-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I have arrived in New Mexico. I already went to see some Indian things and the next thing I will do it drive towards the Petrified forest. There are a lot of petrified things around here, like petrified wood and petrified sand dunes.<\/p>\n<p>Because the word petrified resembles the word petrol I used to think that petrified referred to the process where small plants and animals deep under the ground take thousands of years to turn into oil. Now I realize it means that something turns to stone. This knowledge changes also my understanding of the Harry Potter book in which everyone petrifies all the time.<\/p>\n<p>More and more I am beginning to realize that the Indians were a very smart people who really had lives arranged in a very nice manner. I visited Mesa Verde, a kind of hole in the rock-face where the old Indians had constructed a home. It was nice and dry, with a nice view and a source of water nearby. One with nature. If the had problems they just smoked the peace pipe and all the troubles disappeared and it all just didn&#8217;t matter. Respect for the Indians.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I have arrived in New Mexico. I already went to see some Indian things and the next thing I will do it drive towards the Petrified forest. There are a lot of petrified things around here, like petrified wood and petrified sand dunes. Because the word petrified resembles the word petrol I used to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amerika"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}