{"id":148,"date":"2018-08-05T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/2018\/08\/05\/my-place-in-mammoth-cave-the-historic-entrance\/"},"modified":"2018-08-05T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T22:00:00","slug":"my-place-in-mammoth-cave-the-historic-entrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/2018\/08\/05\/my-place-in-mammoth-cave-the-historic-entrance\/","title":{"rendered":"My Place In Mammoth Cave: The Historic Entrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-sywrYHm-B6c\/W2dhHlwRsuI\/AAAAAAAAAhY\/S0to8hls0SoaqgqooD2m6qhMDSzef21awCLcBGAs\/s1600\/20180729_172404.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-sywrYHm-B6c\/W2dhHlwRsuI\/AAAAAAAAAhY\/S0to8hls0SoaqgqooD2m6qhMDSzef21awCLcBGAs\/s640\/20180729_172404.jpg\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>My favorite view in Mammoth Cave National Park is from the inside of the historic entrance. The historic, natural entrance to Mammoth Cave is a spectacle to see and experience. As you approach the entrance, the temperature noticeably drops and you can feel the cave &#8220;breathe,&#8221; expelling cold, damp, 50 degree air. Water drips down from its roof and natural lighting quickly gives way to darkness. While Mammoth Cave is a sight to see, but the entrance is special. It is your first sight of the cave system and the portal to that dark, subterranean world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite view in Mammoth Cave National Park is from the inside of the historic entrance. The historic, natural entrance to Mammoth Cave is a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/2018\/08\/05\/my-place-in-mammoth-cave-the-historic-entrance\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Place In Mammoth Cave: The Historic Entrance<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-49","category-kyle-maurer","category-mammoth-cave-np","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Paul Paire","author_link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/author\/paire\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}