{"id":495,"date":"2010-11-17T12:35:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T19:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/?p=495"},"modified":"2011-07-15T09:24:30","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T15:24:30","slug":"pics-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/2010\/11\/17\/pics-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinosaur Provincial Park Covered in Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dinosaur Provincial Park is a great place to check out, especially in winter. I went there in the middle of December a couple years ago. After a cold night sleeping in my car, a friendly snowplow driver cleared the way for me. I got there before sunrise and the whole area had just been covered in a fresh dusting of snow the night before. I was the only person there, although there were new cat tracks everywhere. It was a great day! Then on the way home my transmission blew. 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