{"id":12356,"date":"2021-12-22T09:33:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T14:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/?p=12356"},"modified":"2021-12-22T09:33:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T14:33:37","slug":"wild-and-wonderful-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/wild-and-wonderful-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild and Wonderful Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pic01b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-12359\" style=\"border: 0px; margin: 1px 2px;\" src=\"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pic01b-150x113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pic01b-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pic01b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pic01b-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pic01b-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pic01b.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>In 2013, my Christmas Escape destination was a West Virginia state park and since then I&#8217;ve escaped to state parks in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. Last year, I didn&#8217;t escape to anywhere as travel was seriously curtailed by the ongoing pandemic. I&#8217;m a little excited to again hit the road and quite happy to be returning to West Virginia. Before I get to Hawks Nest State Park for a Christmas Day buffet, I&#8217;ll stop at a couple of other West Virginia parks, and before that, I take note of the Winter Solstice. That&#8217;s the Winter Solstice sunrise at Fort Ancient in the photo.<\/p>\n<p>This entry is to let blog-only subscribers know about the trip and to provide a place for comments. The journal is <a href=\"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/cer2021\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2013, my Christmas Escape destination was a West Virginia state park and since then I&#8217;ve escaped to state parks in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. Last year, I didn&#8217;t escape to anywhere as travel was seriously curtailed by the ongoing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/wild-and-wonderful-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip-journal-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1WE0S-3di","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12360,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12356\/revisions\/12360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}