{"id":4196,"date":"2025-09-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=4196"},"modified":"2025-08-19T10:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:12:23","slug":"fools-gold-in-the-california-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=4196","title":{"rendered":"Fools Gold In The California Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Calico-Main-St.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Calico-Main-St-1024x684.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Calico-Main-St-1024x684.png 1024w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Calico-Main-St-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Calico-Main-St-768x513.png 768w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Calico-Main-St.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Nikon D810, 1\/25 sec, f\/7.1, 38mm, ISO 200<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is Main Street in the<a href=\"https:\/\/parks.sbcounty.gov\/park\/calico-ghost-town-regional-park\/\">Calico Ghost Town Regional Park<\/a> near Barstow, California.  While billed as a &#8220;ghost town&#8221;, it is more accurately described as a &#8220;tourist trap&#8221;. As a tourist, it is not really worth the stop. As a photographer, it is worth an hour or two of your time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Calico Ghost Town: <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/dSNWu9JRMWzefizd9\" title=\"\">34.948104\u00b0 -116.865033\u00b0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikon D810, 1\/25 sec, f\/7.1, 38mm, ISO 200 Here is Main Street in theCalico Ghost&#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":[921,923,853,922,752,167,618,753],"class_list":["post-4196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","tag-calico","tag-calico-ghost-town-regional-park","tag-california","tag-ghost-town","tag-image","tag-photo","tag-photography","tag-scott-shaw-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196","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=4196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4204,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions\/4204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}