{"id":4158,"date":"2025-08-11T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=4158"},"modified":"2025-07-28T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:42:00","slug":"bloody-day-at-the-ocotillo-cactus-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=4158","title":{"rendered":"Bloody Day At The Ocotillo Cactus Patch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Yuccas.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Yuccas-1024x684.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Yuccas-1024x684.png 1024w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Yuccas-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Yuccas-768x513.png 768w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Yuccas.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Yucca Plants In The Sunrise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nikon D810, 1\/30 sec, f\/11, 50mm, ISO 200<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a patch of ocotillo cacti near the road on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/jotr\/index.htm\" title=\"\">Joshua Tree National Park<\/a>.  I spent a few minutes here while driving from Twentynine Palms to the Salton Sea area.  Be very careful around the cacti, those barbs are sharp and they seem to jump out at you.   I ran into a Japanese couple, one of which had several needles in her hand.  I happened to have a first aide kit with tweezers (do you?) and was able to pull them out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ocotillo Patch: <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/hki1eN1ToXkS9nQW7\" title=\"\">33.927140\u00b0 -115.905786\u00b0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikon D810, 1\/30 sec, f\/11, 50mm, ISO 200 This is a patch of ocotillo cacti&#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":[218,853,752,912,253,918,167,618,753,905],"class_list":["post-4158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","tag-cactus-2","tag-california","tag-image","tag-joshua-tree","tag-joshua-tree-national-park","tag-ocotillo","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\/4158","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=4158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4159,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions\/4159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}