{"id":8653,"date":"2025-11-01T06:44:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T10:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/?p=12216"},"modified":"2026-03-03T06:05:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:05:52","slug":"salvation-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-ca\/salvation-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Salvation Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"intro wp-block-paragraph\">Calipatria, CA | 136 Miles<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"feature wp-block-paragraph\">Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Salvation_Mountain,_Niland,_CA.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One man\u2019s trash is another man\u2019s treasure. In this spirit\u2026 Salvation Mountain was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Built from discarded tires and windows, various auto parts, adobe clay mixed with straw, and thousands of gallons of donated paint, Salvation Mountain is a visionary work of folk art in the California Desert. Finished in 1989 by Korean War vet Leonard Knight, the completed piece was actually a second attempt after the original version, sculpted in 1984 and reinforced by sand and just a half a bag of cement, collapsed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With over three decades of international critical acclaim, Salvation Mountain remains a profoundly strange and beautifully accessible national treasure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.harley-davidson.com\/share\/rides\/4To-rcFFE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Click here to view this route in the Harley-Davidson Ride Planner and start planning your next adventure.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Originally published in 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calipatria, CA | 136 Miles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-8653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-riding-routes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8654,"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653\/revisions\/8654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}