{"id":20,"date":"2004-02-10T08:49:42","date_gmt":"2004-02-10T08:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2004-02-10T08:49:42","modified_gmt":"2004-02-10T08:49:42","slug":"the_eastern_sierra_ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"The Eastern Sierra, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualproperties.com\/ca2003\/\" TITLE=\"Sierra Nevada Photos, April, 2003\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.virtualproperties.com\/ca2003\/th_dscn1385.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"194\" TITLE=\"Bodie, California\"><\/a><br \/>Stunning, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualproperties.com\/ca2003\/\">beautiful<\/a>, visit! (we did last year)<br \/>\nBridgeport is one of those California places Californians don&#8217;t think about much. If you drew a line due east from Petaluma, across the valleys and the mountains, you&#8217;d hit Bridgeport, about 115 miles south of Reno and 90 miles north of Bishop.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2004\/02\/09\/BAGM04S0SK1.DTL\">It&#8217;s as pretty as a postcard<\/a>, nestled in a wide valley with the Sawtooth range of the Sierra Nevada to the west. The highest peak is the 12,264-foot Matterhorn, named for the Swiss mountain.<br \/>\nHighway 395 is the town&#8217;s main street, and it runs past old white houses, and a modest business district surrounding the 123-year-old Mono County Courthouse, plunked like a Victorian wedding cake in the middle of town. There is even a cannon on the lawn.   Carl Nolte, SF Chronicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stunning, beautiful, visit! (we did last year) Bridgeport is one of those California places Californians don&#8217;t think about much. If you drew a line due east from Petaluma, across the valleys and the mountains, you&#8217;d hit Bridgeport, about 115 miles south of Reno and 90 miles north of Bishop. It&#8217;s as pretty as a postcard, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}