{"id":10303,"date":"2016-08-04T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/?p=10303"},"modified":"2016-08-03T10:16:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T16:16:13","slug":"minuteman-missile-national-historic-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/minuteman-missile-national-historic-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Minuteman Missile National Historic Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/mimi\/index.htm\">Minuteman Missile National Historic Site<\/a> (my 80th <a href=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/category\/national-parks\/\">National Park<\/a> visited) was our final stop in South Dakota before leaving the state. It consisted of three different properties spread out over 10 miles of Interstate exits. Not open very friendly hours, we had to try to see the site(s) before Kerri&#8217;s work day started.<\/p>\n<p>We first dropped in at the Visitor&#8217;s Center to pickup my lapel pin and check in on tour times of the Control Facility (5 miles down the Interstate). The timing was not going to work for us, so we opted to simply go see the missile silo (10 miles down the Interstate) on our way back to camp. It was smaller than I anticipated. These &#8220;little&#8221; guys can do so much damage, so far away, and are the perfect examples of weapons actually <strong>preventing<\/strong> war(s). Luckily, none needed to be fired in anger.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_9890.CR2_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_9890.CR2_-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9890.CR2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_9890.CR2_-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_9890.CR2_-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_9890.CR2_.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_9892.CR2_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10318\" src=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_9892.CR2_-867x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9892.CR2\" width=\"867\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_9892.CR2_-867x1024.jpg 867w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_9892.CR2_-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_9892.CR2_.jpg 1354w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 867px) 100vw, 867px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minuteman Missile National Historic Site (my 80th National Park visited) was our final stop in South Dakota before leaving the state. It consisted of three different properties spread out over 10 miles of Interstate exits. Not open very friendly hours, we had to try to see the site(s) before&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-parks","category-south-dakota"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20140418_093235.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9livM-2Gb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}