{"id":835,"date":"2011-04-23T11:45:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T15:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/?p=835"},"modified":"2011-04-23T11:45:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T15:45:23","slug":"creepy-cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/?p=835","title":{"rendered":"Creepy Cows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the cows were creepy!  But, before that\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Sunday April 17th, we drove from Natural Bridges National Monument to Canyonlands National Park.  It was dark, and signs kept appearing that showed a cow and said &#8220;open range.&#8221;  And as we kept driving there were lots of pairs of bright yellow signs with diagonal black lines that signaled there was a cattle gate in between them.  Jean drove fast, but carefully around each turn of the road through the canyon, but I kept worrying about the cows.  The first cow we saw was about a foot from the road.  It was pretty scary.  The cow looked peaceful though, and kept munching on grass.  The cows kept coming, and I kept worrying.  Jean had to honk at one and she and Dad were amused at its started reaction.  <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_902\" style=\"width: 324px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/startled_cow.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-902\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/startled_cow.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"startled_cow\" width=\"314\" height=\"235\" class=\"size-full wp-image-902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/startled_cow.jpg 314w, https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/startled_cow-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I didn&#039;t see the startled cow, but this is how I think it looked when Jean honked the horn<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As Jean sped around twists and turns I finally asked her to slow down and watch out for cows.  She did, but also said the worst thing that would happen was that we would bump into one, so I stopped worrying so much.  Ellie was terrified of them though.  She kept saying, &#8220;Let&#8217;s get out of here, please,&#8221; really nervously.  As she tried to fall asleep on the couch (it was, like, 9:15, by the way), we kept going over cattle gates and stopping so suddenly that I was surprised she ever fell asleep.  <\/p>\n<p>We searched for a place to spend the night and found nothing.  So we decided we&#8217;d just spend the night at the Canyonlands visitor center.  I had a great sleep, and I think Ellie did too, because in the morning she asked me where we were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the cows were creepy! But, before that\u2026 Sunday April 17th, we drove from Natural Bridges National Monument to Canyonlands National Park. It was dark, and signs kept appearing that showed a cow and said &#8220;open range.&#8221; And as we kept driving there were lots of pairs of bright yellow signs with diagonal black lines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[5,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}