{"id":1664,"date":"2008-10-18T14:16:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T18:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/hill-country-sightseeing\/"},"modified":"2008-10-18T15:14:29","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T19:14:29","slug":"hill-country-sightseeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/18\/hill-country-sightseeing\/","title":{"rendered":"High Country Sightseeing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went on a few outings while we were at the cabin. We browsed the shops in Blowing Rock, and had a lovely pizza lunch at Mellow Mushroom.<br \/>\nWe hit the <a href=\"http:\/\/wataugacountyfarmersmarket.org\/\">Watauga County Farmers&#8217; Market<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_3185-1.jpg' title='Farmers Market'><img src='http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_3185-1.jpg' alt='Farmers Market' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_3186-1.jpg' title='Mom hunts for the perfect apple'><img src='http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_3186-1.jpg' alt='Mom hunts for the perfect apple' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_3192-1.jpg' title='Apple Festival not that exciting, really'><img src='http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_3192-1.jpg' alt='Apple Festival not that exciting, really' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_3183-1.jpg' title='Play me some of that mountain music'><img src='http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_3183-1.jpg' alt='Play me some of that mountain music' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_3184-1.jpg' title='spinning thread'><img src='http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_3184-1.jpg' alt='spinning thread' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And on the way out of town, mom and I stopped to do some good old-fashioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foggymountaingems.com\/\">gem mining<\/a>. She&#8217;s been wanting to do this for years so I surprised her on the way out of town with this adventure. We had a great time and ordered more than one stone to be cut. I hope they turn out nice!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_3232-1.jpg' title='Mom uses a sharp eye to sift through her stones'><img src='http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_3232-1.jpg' alt='Mom uses a sharp eye to sift through her stones' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_3236-1.jpg' alt='Our haul - two bags full!' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_3239-1.jpg' alt='Amethysts, rubies, aquamarine, oh my!' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went on a few outings while we were at the cabin. We browsed the shops in Blowing Rock, and had a lovely pizza lunch at Mellow Mushroom. We hit the Watauga County Farmers&#8217; Market on Saturday. And on the way out of town, mom and I stopped to do some good old-fashioned gem mining. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,133,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-farmers-market","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}