{"id":4011,"date":"2025-07-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T14:38:06","slug":"beating-the-sun-on-the-road-to-emptiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=4011","title":{"rendered":"Beating the Sun on the Road to Emptiness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Highway-to-Nowhere.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"558\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Highway-to-Nowhere-558x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3999\" style=\"width:440px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Highway-to-Nowhere-558x1024.jpg 558w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Highway-to-Nowhere-164x300.jpg 164w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Highway-to-Nowhere.jpg 654w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A Road to Nowhere<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are a fan of this type of composition, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/moja\/index.htm\" title=\"\">Mojave National Preserve<\/a> is the spot for you!  Miles, upon miles, upon miles of similar compositions, without traffic.  That make sit easy to stand in the middle of the road to get that perfect composition.  But just in case, keep your head on a swivel or have a spotter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middle of Nowhere:  <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/GTJiJSNqWBYKJERw9\" title=\"\">35.310641\u00b0 -115.452937\u00b0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a fan of this type of composition, the Mojave National Preserve is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[539],"tags":[752,900,899,167,618,753,905],"class_list":["post-4011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","tag-image","tag-las-vegas","tag-mojave-national-preserve","tag-photo","tag-photography","tag-scott-shaw-photography","tag-twentynine-palms"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4013,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions\/4013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}