{"id":54,"date":"2012-02-17T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/2012\/02\/17\/happy-late-birthday-arizona\/"},"modified":"2012-02-17T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T19:10:00","slug":"happy-late-birthday-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/happy-late-birthday-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Late Birthday Arizona!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0Happy (late) 100th Birthday Arizona! (Arizona’s birthday is February 14th. \u00a0There’s this other holiday on that day…but this one obviously overshadows it ;))<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
Last night, I was talking to Karina about the beauty of different states. \u00a0Karina’s from Colorado, which, from what I can tell from the pictures, is a beautiful state. Green, mountains, lakes, and plains, it’s gorgeous. I won’t disagree that Colorado is beautiful, but when Karina then said, “Sorry, Emma. But Arizona is just butt ugly.”\u00a0<\/div>\n
I’ll be honest, when I first moved to Arizona I didn’t think it was the most beautiful place…there’s hardly any green. \u00a0There’s a lot of dirt and sagebrush. \u00a0But Arizona is my home. It’s where I’m from, and I have learned to appreciate it’s unique beauty as I’ve lived there. \u00a0I love green, hilly places and I love the fall. Winter is beautiful in other places. But Arizona has a unique beauty and culture that I have grown to love as I’ve grown up there.<\/div>\n
First of all, watch an Arizona sunset<\/span>; it is stunning.<\/div>\n
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\nCactus<\/span> are pretty cool too, not very many states have cacti around.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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The red rock<\/span> is very pretty; many people come to Sedona for retreats and such to admire the beauty there. <\/p>\n
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Of course, the Grand Canyon<\/span>, which you can see from space, it’s that amazing. (Confession: I’ve never actually been there. I better add that to my bucket list.)<\/p>\n
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Lots of people come to Arizona for winter, because winter in Arizona is heavenly. (For all my Arizona friends that think it’s “cold” there…you’re mistaken.)<\/div>\n
Now don’t get me wrong, the sagebrush can get old, but moments like these pictures make me appreciate Arizona’s own kind of beauty. \u00a0Happy Birthday Arizona. I miss you, and I won’t see you for a long while, but you will always be home.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Happy (late) 100th Birthday Arizona! (Arizona’s birthday is February 14th. \u00a0There’s this other holiday on that day…but this one obviously overshadows it ;)) Last night, I was talking to Karina about the beauty of different states. \u00a0Karina’s from Colorado, which, from what I can tell from the pictures, is a beautiful state. Green, mountains, lakes, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}