{"id":718,"date":"2026-02-23T08:05:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T08:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AJJ\/?p=718"},"modified":"2026-06-12T08:05:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:05:59","slug":"a-grand-disappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AJJ\/a-grand-disappointment\/","title":{"rendered":"A Grand Disappointment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AJJ\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5439-e1781250703406-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Horse tail falls, Yosemite National Park\" class=\"wp-image-704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AJJ\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5439-e1781250703406-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AJJ\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5439-e1781250703406-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AJJ\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5439-e1781250703406-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AJJ\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5439-e1781250703406.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">f\/6.3  ISO &#8211; 320  Exposure &#8211; 1\/320 SEC  Focal Length &#8211; 250mm<br>2\/15\/2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I took this photo while on a trip in Yosemite. It was my first time going there and I was hoping to see the famous Fire Falls. I was disappointed however as there was not enough water that day so even though I suffered through falling into a river and getting blisters on my ankles, I didn\u2019t get to see the Fire Falls. I did however see a man\u2019s rendition of Fire Falls in the form of pouring water from his water bottle. It made me laugh a good little bit despite the situation. However, the reason I said that I was disappointed and not sad was because the next day, it started storming. And wouldn\u2019t ya know, Horse-tail Falls (the official name of the waterfall) now had enough water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took this photo while on a trip in Yosemite. It was my first time going there and I was hoping to see the famous Fire Falls. I was disappointed however as there was not enough water that day so even though I suffered through falling into a river and getting blisters on my ankles, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story_telling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AJJ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AJJ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AJJ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AJJ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AJJ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AJJ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AJJ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AJJ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AJJ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AJJ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}