{"id":602,"date":"2009-08-31T18:06:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T22:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/602"},"modified":"2009-08-31T18:06:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T22:06:27","slug":"the-sojourn-in-pictures-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/602","title":{"rendered":"The Sojourn in Pictures: Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part 9 in a 16-part stately series pictorially documenting the Sojourn<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yesterday: Minnesota<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the most elaborate state signs, replete with governor… I guess when you have governors for 4 consecutive terms (see Tommy Thompson), it feels like something to etch on a sign:
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The capitol, which we sadly forgot to take the camera into – overall, perhaps the nicest of the many state capitols I’ve seen:
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On the way to the Dells, we saw this sign. Em was captivated, but we didn’t stop to sample the cuisine and compare it to Em’s beloved in Oakland:
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This is more or less what most of the Dells look like. For some reason, it was not what I was expecting:
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One of the cooler formations:
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The “stack of pancakes”:
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It occurs to me that while the subtitle for the Sunset to Sunrise Summer Sojourn 2009 was “National Parks and Baseball Parks”, it could have just been “Rock Formations”. I mean, really. We saw a few:
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Green… in the wa-ter…
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This picture… rocks.
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Toadstool formation:
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Those aren’t rocks – those are bricks<\/i>!
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There wasn’t a game within a number of days of our visit to Milwaukee, but they still let us in to a part of Miller Park, from where we could see the field:
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Emily was enthralled by the AAGPBL exhibit, honoring the Wisconsin-based basis for perhaps her favorite movie, “A League of Their Own”:
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One of the niftier takes on retractable roofs I’ve seen:
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Tomorrow: Illinois<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Part 9 in a 16-part stately series pictorially documenting the Sojourn. Yesterday: Minnesota One of the most elaborate state signs, replete with governor… I guess when you have governors for 4 consecutive terms (see Tommy Thompson), it feels like something to etch on a sign: The capitol, which we sadly forgot to take the camera […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,26,31],"tags":[5,67,71],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-just-add-photo","category-summer-sojourn-2009","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-just-add-photo","tag-summer-sojourn-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}