{"id":2477,"date":"2019-11-07T02:22:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T10:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2019-10-29T13:30:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T20:30:03","slug":"the-wedge-utahs-little-grand-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/07\/the-wedge-utahs-little-grand-canyon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wedge: Utah&#8217;s Little Grand Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Wedge is the home of the Little Grand Canyon of Utah! Awesome place! Like its big brother, photos don&#8217;t do it justice. Unlike its big brother, it was empty of people! We drove the 40 mile dirt road to the canyon rim and were wowed by the view! You literally drove right up to the edge of the canyon, no chain link fencing, no walkway and no people, just amazing scenery and the sounds of silence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1333\" height=\"2000\" data-attachment-id=\"2478\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/07\/the-wedge-utahs-little-grand-canyon\/z-the-wedge-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/z-the-wedge-1.jpg?fit=1333%2C2000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1333,2000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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Awesome place! Like its big brother, photos don&#8217;t do it justice. Unlike its big brother, it was empty of people! We drove the 40 mile dirt road to the canyon rim and were wowed by the view! You literally drove right up to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/07\/the-wedge-utahs-little-grand-canyon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Wedge: Utah&#8217;s Little Grand Canyon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[381,383,382,380,337],"class_list":["post-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-little-grand-canyon","tag-mr-beaver","tag-san-rafael-river","tag-the-wedge","tag-utah"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9ImxW-DX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2485,"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions\/2485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}