{"id":1612,"date":"2007-10-19T14:50:53","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T18:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2012-09-10T09:33:33","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T13:33:33","slug":"the-great-temple-mound-at-etowah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/1612\/the-great-temple-mound-at-etowah\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Temple Mound at Etowah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idyllopuspress\/1630205855\/\" title=\"Etowah Indian Mounds by idyllopus, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2311\/1630205855_c266aee37a_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"Etowah Indian Mounds\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idyllopuspress\/1630205855\/in\/photostream\/#\/photos\/idyllopuspress\/1630205855\/in\/photostream\/lightbox\/\">Light box enlargement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idyllopuspress\/1631333904\/\" title=\"Etowah Indian Mounds by idyllopus, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2298\/1631333904_2dc58e000c_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"Etowah Indian Mounds\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idyllopuspress\/1631333904\/in\/photostream\/#\/photos\/idyllopuspress\/1631333904\/in\/photostream\/lightbox\/\">Light box enlargement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Etowah Indian Mounds, The Great Temple Mound<br \/>\nOct 2007<\/i><\/p>\n<p>This is a view of the Great Temple Mound (Mound A) one doesn&#8217;t usually get, the images of it usually being from the walk to the mounds (north) and great plaza on the other side, or to the front (east) where are the stairs leading up the mound from the plaza.<\/p>\n<p>The Great Temple Mound is about 65 feet, six stories high.<\/p>\n<p>I stayed atop the Great Temple Mound for a while, watching the clouds, then climbed Mound B, then came around to this side for some pictures and was awestruck by the majesty of it and the arrangement of clouds above.<\/p>\n<p>The white dots on the slopes are luminaries remaining from a night tour.  Apparently they climbed the slope, which is normally off limits to individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light box enlargement Light box enlargement Etowah Indian Mounds, The Great Temple Mound Oct 2007 This is a view of the Great Temple Mound (Mound A) one doesn&#8217;t usually get, the images of it usually being from the walk to the mounds (north) and great plaza on the other side, or to the front (east) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[310,339,324],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-etowah-indian-mounds","tag-indian-mounds","tag-outside-the-perimeter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}