{"id":10988,"date":"2016-03-28T04:49:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T08:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=10988"},"modified":"2016-03-28T06:03:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T10:03:00","slug":"and-the-winner-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=10988","title":{"rendered":"And The Winner Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=10969\" target=\"_blank\">Washington DC on March 23<\/a> and took photos as a brilliant red dawn occurred, I had posted one photo per day on social media.  This one picture, not previously posted here, was shared and &#8220;liked&#8221; by hundreds.  The winner is&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootedman.com\/trees\/cherrytrees6.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Jeffdawn05.jpg?resize=584%2C779\" alt=\"Jeffdawn05\" width=\"584\" height=\"779\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Jeffdawn05.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Jeffdawn05.jpg?resize=300%2C400&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Jeffdawn05.jpg?resize=113%2C150&amp;ssl=1 113w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Jeffdawn05.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>Above, this is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/thje\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Jefferson Memorial<\/a>, built to honor the author of the Declaration of Independence of the American colonies to realize the foundation of what became the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>There truly is something dramatic at that precise moment when dawn&#8217;s early light makes the clouds appear in all colors of the rainbow.<\/p>\n<p>I probably took about 60 pictures during the five minutes when the colors were appearing.  This one seemed to be the best.<\/p>\n<p>As promised, posted a gallery of the best of the photos that I took that day. This small gallery also features photos of the iconic Washington Monument, built to honor our nation&#8217;s first President and a General in the Revolutionary War.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootedman.com\/trees\/cherrytrees6.html\" target=\"_blank\">That gallery is here (this is a link)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DC&#8217;s iconic memorials and cherry trees are indeed a treasure.  <\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  admire what&#8217;s close by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I visited Washington DC on March 23 and took photos as a brilliant red dawn occurred, I had posted one photo per day on social media. This one picture, not previously posted here, was shared and &#8220;liked&#8221; by hundreds. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=10988\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-washington-dc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}