By BEA SHELBY<\/p>\n
My favorite place in MTRP is the Grinding Rocks. The old oak trees that have been there long before I ever was overlook the San Diego River. The running waters are still carving a gorge through the mountains. The large plutonic rocks show markings of women\u2019s work in a long time past. Here they prepared acorns to feed their families.<\/p>\n
Little is known for sure of those long gone by, but legends tell of a simpler and more peaceful time than what we know today. As a breeze blows through my hair while I sit on a \u201cgrinding rock,\u201d my thoughts go back in time. I wonder what life would be like here if the Europeans had never come and changed the local peoples\u2019 lifestyle forever.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Bea Sheby is a trail guide at Mission Trails Regional Park.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By BEA SHELBY My favorite place in MTRP is the Grinding Rocks. The old oak trees that have been there long before I ever was overlook the San Diego River. The running waters are still carving a gorge through the mountains. The large plutonic rocks show markings of women\u2019s work in a long time past. […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":231355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11558","_seopress_titles_title":"Favorite place: Grinding Rocks","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11558],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-mission-times-courier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}