{"id":2106,"date":"2017-09-05T19:22:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T23:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2017-09-05T19:22:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T23:22:03","slug":"cadillac-ranch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/?p=2106","title":{"rendered":"Cadillac Ranch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a driving day with little to see on the route from Pueblo, CO to Amarillo, TX. The only tourist stop I made was at the roadside art installation, called <em>Cadillac Ranch<\/em>, just west of Amarillo. This was installed in 1974 and features ten Cadillac cars buried, nose first, in a corn field. Little remains of some of the cars which, when they were installed, represented the development of Cadillac tail fins from 1949 to 1963. Visitors are encouraged to spray paint the cars.<\/p>\n<p>The road video and map are <a href=\"\/Tripmapper\/Mapview2.aspx?DataFile=Alaska\/2017_09_05_Amarillo&amp;Video=nJ_ljzLSn8w\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cadillac Ranch as it appeared when I was there. Several people were spraying and it&#8217;s appearance continually changes.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2110\" src=\"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Cadillac-Ranch-All.jpg\" alt=\"Cadillac Ranch All\" width=\"760\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Cadillac-Ranch-All.jpg 760w, http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Cadillac-Ranch-All-300x88.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><br \/>\nA closer look together with the empty spray cans that people don&#8217;t bother to take away.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2109\" src=\"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Cadillac-Ranch-Close.jpg\" alt=\"Cadillac Ranch Close\" width=\"760\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Cadillac-Ranch-Close.jpg 760w, http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Cadillac-Ranch-Close-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><br \/>\nNothing is safe from spray paint.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2108\" src=\"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Cadillac-Ranch-Corn.jpg\" alt=\"Cadillac Ranch Corn\" width=\"760\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Cadillac-Ranch-Corn.jpg 760w, http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Cadillac-Ranch-Corn-300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><br \/>\nThe colorful cars make a nice piece of abstract art.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2107\" src=\"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Cadillac-Ranch-Art.jpg\" alt=\"Cadillac Ranch Art\" width=\"760\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Cadillac-Ranch-Art.jpg 760w, http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Cadillac-Ranch-Art-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a driving day with little to see on the route from Pueblo, CO to Amarillo, TX. The only tourist stop I made was at the roadside art installation, called Cadillac Ranch, just west of Amarillo. This was installed in 1974 and features ten Cadillac cars buried, nose first, in a corn field. Little &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/?p=2106\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cadillac Ranch<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[70,3],"tags":[47,66,67],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}