{"id":190,"date":"2023-12-24T20:57:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T20:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photography.ngreensides.com\/?p=190"},"modified":"2025-05-17T02:10:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T02:10:51","slug":"oaks-of-oc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photography.ngreensides.com\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"Oaks of OC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/photography.ngreensides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img_2148-scaled-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/photography.ngreensides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img_2148-scaled-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/photography.ngreensides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img_2148-scaled-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/photography.ngreensides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img_2148-scaled-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/photography.ngreensides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img_2148-scaled-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/photography.ngreensides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img_2148-scaled-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I went for a hike at Irvine Regional Park (located in the hills of Orange, CA) in December 2023. The Oak trees at sunset remind me that at one point, these lands were filled with Oak woodlands that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/news\/shows\/greater-la\/native-americans-la\/acorns-forage-indigenous\">local indigenous Acjachemen and Tongva peoples revered<\/a>. I wonder if these trees (or other trees in the park) are old enough to remember when the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California_grizzly_bear\">California Grizzly<\/a> used to take refuge in its shade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went for a hike at Irvine Regional Park (located in the hills of Orange, CA) in December 2023. The Oak trees at sunset remind me that at one point, these lands were filled with Oak woodlands that local indigenous Acjachemen and Tongva peoples revered. I wonder if these trees (or other trees in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8,19,22,27,31,32,35,37,52],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature","tag-california","tag-forest","tag-hiking","tag-landscapes","tag-nature","tag-oak","tag-orange-county","tag-protected-lands","tag-trees"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/photography.ngreensides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img_2148-scaled-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photography.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photography.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photography.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photography.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photography.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/photography.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/photography.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photography.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photography.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photography.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photography.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}