{"id":1821,"date":"2008-03-14T08:23:35","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T16:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/03\/14\/tunnel-view-trees-gone-at-long-last\/"},"modified":"2008-03-14T08:25:45","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T16:25:45","slug":"tunnel-view-trees-gone-at-long-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/03\/14\/tunnel-view-trees-gone-at-long-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunnel View Trees Gone At Long Last!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t tell you how many times I&#8217;ve seethed in impotent rage at having to put up with large Ponderosa pines blocking my inalienable right to soak up all there is to see at Yosemite&#8217;s  Tunnel View. Finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yosemiteblog.com\/2008\/03\/13\/big-changes-at-tunnel-view-today\/\">this crime against humanity has been corrected<\/a>, Yosemite blog reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> I wish I could have been at Tunnel View today to photograph the historic moment, but I wasn\u2019t. They cut three large ponderosa pines down that have been blocking the view for many years.<\/p>\n<p>All that is left are the stumps, and for now, the lingering scent of pine sap.<\/p>\n<p>Those old behemoths were handsome in their own way, yes, but my gods, the view now is stunning. I made a point of taking a picture from each block along the low wall.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finally these insidious, intemperate pines have been moved to a better place: the woodpile! <\/p>\n<p>From my archives, an example of these trees&#8217; insufferable habits before common sense and  chainsaw took over: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/2333436192\/\" title=\"Tunnel view trees by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2312\/2333436192_2b04f28f29.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Tunnel view trees\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have only one thing to say to these trees: How dare they? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t tell you how many times I&#8217;ve seethed in impotent rage at having to put up with large Ponderosa pines blocking my inalienable right to soak up all there is to see at Yosemite&#8217;s Tunnel View. Finally, this crime&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/03\/14\/tunnel-view-trees-gone-at-long-last\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}