{"id":4035,"date":"2025-07-21T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=4035"},"modified":"2025-06-18T10:28:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:28:45","slug":"guardian-angel-in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=4035","title":{"rendered":"Guardian Angel In The Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/A4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"849\" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/A4-1024x849.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4021\" style=\"width:603px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/A4-1024x849.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/A4-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/A4-768x637.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/A4.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A-4 Tail Flash In The Desert<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While doing some business at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms CA, I ran upon this A-4L parked at the front gate of the airfield.  According to an amateur historians website (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aircraftinformation.info\/JB_AIF\/navy_serials\/thirdseries18.html\" title=\"\">here<\/a>) this aircraft served with various Navy and Marine Corps attack squadrons from 1960 until retiring in 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A-4L In The Desert:  34.296182\u00b0 -116.155902\u00b0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While doing some business at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms&#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":[853,752,908,909,899,167,618,753,905],"class_list":["post-4035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","tag-california","tag-image","tag-marine-corps-air-ground-combat-center","tag-mcagcc","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\/4035","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=4035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4037,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions\/4037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}