{"id":1007,"date":"2023-03-17T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2023-12-17T22:12:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T05:12:33","slug":"silver-lake-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/2023\/03\/17\/silver-lake-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Lake Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For this Friday afternoon-into-evening stairway walk from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Secret-Stairs-Walking-Historic-Staircases\/dp\/1595800506\/?&amp;_encoding=UTF8&amp;tag=bravissimo594-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;linkId=f30766ad4f2139e81e3bef332ddec469&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\" target=\"_blank\">Secret Stairs<\/a>, Beth and I covered Walk #27. For this one, we got to pass a couple of Easter Island mo&#8217;ai (which I now know are called <em>mo&#8217;ai<\/em>), a muddy dirt road more in-place in a rural woodsy area of the country, and a house\/exhibit reportedly with a 2600-year-old mummy inside. We also got to go <em>up<\/em> a couple of staircases that we went <em>down <\/em>on our February 12 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/2023\/02\/12\/astro-loop\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"918\">Astro Loop<\/a> hike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/370-4mPUm0M?t=143\">this Three Stooges short<\/a> to see what I think of on every one of these stairway adventures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe src='https:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/modern\/activity\/embed\/10723439553' title='Silver Lake Court' width='465' height='500' frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/modern\/activity\/10723439553\">Open this hike on Garmin Connect<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PXL_20230318_013429229.MP_.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1009\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PXL_20230318_013429229.MP_-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PXL_20230318_013429229.MP_-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PXL_20230318_013429229.MP_-scaled.jpg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PXL_20230318_013429229.MP_-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PXL_20230318_013429229.MP_-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, 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For this one, we got to pass a couple of Easter Island mo&#8217;ai (which I now know are called mo&#8217;ai), a muddy dirt road more in-place in a rural woodsy area of the country, and a house\/exhibit reportedly with a&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"","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":[124],"tags":[125,128,130],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hikes","tag-hiking","tag-secret-stairs","tag-urban-hikes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PXL_20230318_013429229.MP_-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Q7kW-gf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}