{"id":814,"date":"2012-06-11T06:32:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T11:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2012\/06\/11\/120611-westtexasfromabove\/"},"modified":"2022-04-06T11:44:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T16:44:55","slug":"120611-westtexasfromabove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2012\/06\/11\/120611-westtexasfromabove\/","title":{"rendered":"West Texas from Above: Part 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 24px; border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/watchforsnakes.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of warning sign\" \/>Cartographically crafty Gazette readers Jon Wheeler, Joe Lee, and Chuck Rubins all correctly identified <a href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2012\/06\/07\/120607-westtexasfromabove\/\">photo numero cinco<\/a> as the famed <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Odessa_Meteor_Crater\">Odessa Meteor Crater<\/a>, renowned across the galaxy as, well, a semi-big hole in the ground. Some say it&#8217;s proof that we Earthlings aren&#8217;t the only ones who have problems texting and driving. Plus, it has snakes, or at least signs alerting one to the possibility of snakes. Or, this could actually be code for &#8220;watch out for alien life forms that might have hitched a ride on a big chunk of rock crashing into our planet.&#8221; Your guess is as good as mine, but I advise heeding the sign on either account. Seriously, though, it&#8217;s a registered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netwest.com\/virtdomains\/meteorcrater\/history.htm\">national natural landmark<\/a>, so no giggling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/googleearth\/meteorcrater.jpg\" alt=\"Photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, I didn&#8217;t think anyone &#8211; let alone three people &#8211; would recognize that location, so I have no idea how challenging this next one will be. The only hint I&#8217;ll give is that you don&#8217;t have to be from the Midland-Odessa area to know what it is.<\/p>\n<p><i>Click on the picture to see a larger version.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"border: 0; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/googleearth\/06.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; margin: 0 0 3px 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/googleearth\/06-t.jpg\" alt=\"Photo\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"smaller\">Viewed from 15,000&#8242;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cartographically crafty Gazette readers Jon Wheeler, Joe Lee, and Chuck Rubins all correctly identified photo numero cinco as the famed Odessa Meteor Crater, renowned across the galaxy as, well, a semi-big hole in the ground. Some say it&#8217;s proof that we Earthlings aren&#8217;t the only ones who have problems texting and driving. Plus, it has&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2012\/06\/11\/120611-westtexasfromabove\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">West Texas from Above: Part 6<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[6,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-west-texas","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9595,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/9595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}