{"id":2286,"date":"2026-03-30T18:42:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T01:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2026-03-30T18:46:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T01:46:53","slug":"soda-lake-carrizo-plain-national-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/2026\/03\/soda-lake-carrizo-plain-national-monument\/","title":{"rendered":"Soda Lake \u2014 Carrizo Plain National Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/img\/web\/7\/central-ca-march-2026-20260314160926-1-w1200.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Carrizo Plain National Monument blooms with wildflowers every spring.  The yellow patches are wildflowers.  This is an aerial view over Soda Lake.  Soda Lake evaporates and becomes a dry lake bed in the summer.  The water deposits are where the lake has already evaporated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carrizo Plain National Monument blooms with wildflowers every spring. The yellow patches are wildflowers. This is an aerial view over Soda Lake. Soda Lake evaporates and becomes a dry lake bed in the summer. The water deposits are where the lake has already evaporated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/img\/web\/7\/central-ca-march-2026-20260314160926-1-w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[114,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerial","category-california","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/img\/web\/7\/central-ca-march-2026-20260314160926-1-w1200.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2287,"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions\/2287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}