{"id":2977,"date":"2013-09-15T14:44:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T19:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deepsicks.com\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2022-06-12T13:32:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T18:32:27","slug":"birthday-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2013\/09\/15\/birthday-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"birthday cave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wednesday was Arthur&#8217;s birthday. I take considerable pride in my <a href=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/122309\/xmasdryer.jpg\">gift<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/xmasumbrella.jpg\">wrapping<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/010712\/joe_suspicious.jpg\">prowess<\/a>. But this one takes the cake (which I also made, German chocolate with the icing homemade, it was awesome, yeah).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saying that it looked like an episode of <em>Lost,<\/em> he did not fail to notice that this is our house, Google Map gift wrap plane crashed about our yard, we&#8217;re in the flight path, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/091513\/green_laser_wrapping.jpg\" alt=\"Birthday present wrapped in a Google satellite map with a plastic toy plane crashed on it.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He did not guess, though, that I got him a green laser for extending his wonder and touching the stars (and hopefully never taking down aircraft). Yippee!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then for good measure we prowled around a cave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_8600-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_8600-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_8600-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_8600-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_8600-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myinnerspacecavern.com\/\">Inner Space Cavern<\/a> was discovered in 1963 in Georgetown, Texas, during the construction of Interstate 35.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As in, whoops! Here&#8217;s a cave!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/091513\/inner_space_caverns_01.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Texas Highway Department wanted to pump it full of cement, but the landowner-cum-cave-master would have none of it. They&#8217;ve since uncovered bones of prehistoric animals with sections of the cave still unexplored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/091513\/inner_space_caverns_02.jpg\" alt=\"Cave with stalactites and -mites.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It includes adorable tiny bats, aptly described as furry chicken nuggets. They kindly did not get caught in my hair even once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/091513\/inner_space_caverns_bat.jpg\" alt=\"Bats!\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/091513\/inner_space_caverns_soda_straws.jpg\" alt=\"Soda straws on the cave roof.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s one of the resident baby ibex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/091513\/inner_space_caverns_baby_ibex.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was also a zebra, but the zebra was a jerk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No internet fame for jerk zebra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday was Arthur&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,10,25],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-narratives","tag-adventures","tag-art","tag-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8248,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions\/8248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}