{"id":831,"date":"2018-04-18T14:54:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T18:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/?p=831"},"modified":"2018-04-18T15:04:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T19:04:11","slug":"sunrise-in-white-sands-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/18\/sunrise-in-white-sands-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise in White Sands National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just two days after we left Houston for our 2018 chapter of life on the road, we found ourselves in New Mexico and decided to lose some sleep to spend another sunrise in White Sands National Park. Despite the fierce, freezing February wind, White Sands still offers some of the most unique and outstanding national park views in an otherworldly landscape. Hazen and Otis only last about 10 minutes before retreating to the car for safety but that was enough time for a good run and little exploration. Russell and I braved the elements for close to an hour stopping in multiple spots to roam the dunes and marvel at the alien desert plant life. This was the perfect chance for me to try out a dress from the <a href=\"https:\/\/gallery.melodicview.com\/wanderlovewardrobe\/\">Wanderlove Wardrobe<\/a> and hop in front of the camera for a change.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-852\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/websize-1366-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"white sands national park sunrise adventure\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/websize-1366-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/websize-1366-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/websize-1366-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/websize-1366.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-851\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/websize-1288-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"white sands national park sunrise adventure\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/websize-1288-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/websize-1288-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/websize-1288-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/websize-1288.jpg 1001w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-849\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/websize-0880-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"white sands national park sunrise adventure\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/websize-0880-1024x683.jpg 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https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/websize-0728-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/websize-0728.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-832\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/websize-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"white sands national park sunrise adventure\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/websize-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/websize-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/websize-2-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/websize-2.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/websize-0726-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"white italian greyhound in white sands national park \" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/websize-0726-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/websize-0726-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/websize-0726-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/websize-0726.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just two days after we left Houston for our 2018 chapter of life on the road, we found ourselves in New Mexico and decided to lose some sleep to spend another sunrise in White Sands National Park. Despite the fierce, freezing February wind, White Sands still offers some of the most unique and outstanding national&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/18\/sunrise-in-white-sands-national-park\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventures","category-places"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/websize-0759.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}