{"id":848,"date":"2015-03-15T10:25:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T16:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/?p=848"},"modified":"2015-03-15T10:25:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T16:25:37","slug":"visit-prehistoric-sites-with-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/visit-prehistoric-sites-with-respect\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit Prehistoric Sites With Respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wonderful book,\u00a0<em>Visit With Respect,<\/em>\u00a0Tessie Naranjo from Santa Clara Pueblo, says: &#8220;Whenever I come to old Pueblo sites it is the beginning of emotions swelling up. About people, my people, my ancestors who used to live here. \u00a0And connections with them. \u00a0There is no past; there is no present. \u00a0There isn&#8217;t a divide there. \u00a0That&#8217;s why when we are here, we can greet the people who are here, who have not been here for hundreds and hundreds of years. \u00a0It&#8217;s as if they are here right now and we can talk to them.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons it&#8217;s important to protect and preserve archaeological sites is to allow the public to experience that timeless moment that Tessie Naranjo speaks about so eloquently. \u00a0In that eternal now it is possible, we believe, to transcend the barriers of time and touch the peoples who lived in America long, long ago. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yes. \u00a0We are romantics.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/balcony_house_cropped.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-849\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/balcony_house_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"balcony_house_cropped\" width=\"210\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wonderful book,\u00a0Visit With Respect,\u00a0Tessie Naranjo from Santa Clara Pueblo, says: &#8220;Whenever I come to old Pueblo sites it is the beginning of emotions swelling up. About people, my people, my ancestors who used to live here. \u00a0And connections with them. \u00a0There is no past; there is no present. \u00a0There isn&#8217;t a divide there. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[165,17,19,166,167,66,94,96,164,123],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}