{"id":13039,"date":"2021-09-22T18:01:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T01:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=13039"},"modified":"2021-09-23T18:08:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T01:08:33","slug":"lounge-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2021\/09\/22\/lounge-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Lounge Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I promised Audrey some time to lounge during this trip, and the next two days should make her happy.  We&#8217;re booked at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefernlodge.com\/\">Fern Lodge<\/a> in Adirondack State Park, a place that is far too classy for us, but despite our disheveled appearance and lack of refinement they&#8217;ve still given us a great room with a lake view and a huge stone fireplace.  The plan while here is to lounge, enjoy the home-cooked breakfasts, and maybe take a canoe out on the lake for a few hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The drive here was a scenic trip through the Green Mountains, with a stop along the way in Weston, Vermont, where we enjoyed the view of the Old Mill and then made friends with the proprietors of the town&#8217;s 150 year old general store.  Surprisingly they were familiar with Shaker Heights, the suburb of Cleveland where I went to high school, and so in a town of a few hundred people in the woods of Vermont we talked at length about a much larger small town that lies 500 miles to the west.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-main\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2021-09-A\/1467-weston-vermont-old-mill.jpg\" alt=\"The Old Mill in Weston, Vermont\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">The Old Mill in Weston, Vermont.  I&#8217;m still pro-dam removal, but this one made for a nice photo.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I promised Audrey some time to lounge during this trip, and the next two days should make her happy. We&#8217;re booked at the Fern Lodge in Adirondack State Park, a place that is far too classy for us, but despite our disheveled appearance and lack of refinement they&#8217;ve still given us a great room with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2021\/09\/22\/lounge-days\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lounge Days&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[72,30],"class_list":["post-13039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-2021-new-england-trip","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13039"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13057,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13039\/revisions\/13057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}