{"id":13121,"date":"2021-10-01T16:28:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T23:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=13121"},"modified":"2021-10-27T19:25:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T02:25:14","slug":"all-good-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2021\/10\/01\/all-good-things\/","title":{"rendered":"All Good Things&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a glorious twenty days we&#8217;ve returned home.  Despite my best efforts, Audrey left Cleveland thinking it was awesome, and she wasn&#8217;t <em>totally<\/em> wrong &#8211; there&#8217;s new construction and crews out fixing old buildings everywhere, so it wasn&#8217;t quite the Scooby Doo ghost town that I&#8217;d sold it as.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our last day was spent downtown so I could show off Cleveland&#8217;s former glory.  We parked at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Terminal_Tower\">Terminal Tower<\/a> to see what was once the world&#8217;s second-tallest building.  We visited the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cleveland_Arcade\">Old Arcade<\/a>, one of America&#8217;s earliest attempts at a mall and an incredible piece of architecture.  We hit up the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cleveland_Public_Library\">Cleveland Public Library<\/a> to see its ornate domed ceilings.  We ate lunch at one of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Symon\">Michael Symon<\/a>&#8216;s many Cleveland eateries.  And we finished the day with an obligatory stop at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockhall.com\/\">Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the past few years, vacations haven&#8217;t been as frequent as I might prefer, so having some time to disconnect completely from work has been rejuvenating.  With luck, COVID will end, work will be a bit less crazy, and travel journal entries like those made over the past few weeks won&#8217;t be as rare in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-main\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/iphone\/5543-cleveland-audrey-steggie-me.jpg\" alt=\"Audrey, Steggie and me, Cleveland Natural History Museum\" width=\"872\" height=\"654\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">Audrey, Steggie and me, Cleveland Natural History Museum.<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-main\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/iphone\/2209-cleveland-human-family-tree.jpg\" alt=\"The Human Family Tree, Cleveland Natural History Museum\" width=\"1121\" height=\"711\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">The Human Family Tree, Cleveland Natural History Museum. \n I&#8217;ll grow up some day.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a glorious twenty days we&#8217;ve returned home. Despite my best efforts, Audrey left Cleveland thinking it was awesome, and she wasn&#8217;t totally wrong &#8211; there&#8217;s new construction and crews out fixing old buildings everywhere, so it wasn&#8217;t quite the Scooby Doo ghost town that I&#8217;d sold it as. Our last day was spent downtown &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2021\/10\/01\/all-good-things\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;All Good Things&#8230;&#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],"class_list":["post-13121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-2021-new-england-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13121","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=13121"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13133,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13121\/revisions\/13133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}