{"id":3099,"date":"2011-11-27T23:58:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T03:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=3099"},"modified":"2011-12-07T00:17:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T04:17:36","slug":"picture-rocks-north-and-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2011\/picture-rocks-north-and-south","title":{"rendered":"Picture Rocks North and South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a nice parallel from man to nature and back again.<\/p>\n<p>The Incas worshiped mountains as deities. But directly visiting far away peaks was very difficult. So they used nearby rocks to stand in for the mountains. Here is one such &#8220;Picture Rock&#8221; from <a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/travel\/peru07\/machu_picchu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Machu Picchu<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/inca-picture-rock.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3100\" title=\"inca-picture-rock\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/inca-picture-rock.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/inca-picture-rock.jpg 800w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/inca-picture-rock-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/inca-picture-rock-333x250.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 85vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently took this photo of natural picture rocks in the <a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/2011\/09\/boundary-waters-canoe-trip\/\" target=\"_blank\">BWCA<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bwca-picture-rock.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3104\" title=\"bwca-picture-rock\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bwca-picture-rock.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bwca-picture-rock.jpg 800w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bwca-picture-rock-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bwca-picture-rock-337x250.jpg 337w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 85vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a nice parallel from man to nature and back again. The Incas worshiped mountains as deities. But directly visiting far away peaks was very difficult. So they used nearby rocks to stand in for the mountains. Here is one such &#8220;Picture Rock&#8221; from Machu Picchu&#8230; I recently took this photo of natural picture rocks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2011\/picture-rocks-north-and-south\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Picture Rocks North and South&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bwca","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3099"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3107,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions\/3107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}