{"id":2450,"date":"2017-11-05T10:01:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T14:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2017-11-05T10:01:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T14:01:58","slug":"western-north-carolina-color-1-countryside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=2450","title":{"rendered":"Western North Carolina Color #1 &#8211; Countryside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy and I recently enjoyed a relaxing week in and around the Asheville\/Burnsville area. \u00a0Both of us were fighting sinus and respiratory infections, so our exploration was limited to the &#8220;drive by&#8221; approach rather than hiking like planned. \u00a0We still made the most of it and enjoyed each moment and mile. \u00a0Special thanks to our buddy Carl for putting us up at his stunning cabin on the mountain, and for feeding and spoiling us!<\/p>\n<p>2017&#8217;s autumn has been very odd &#8211; colors have been running very late, and there has been little rhyme and reason to the color change in terms of timing and elevation. \u00a0It has been a real crap shoot, but fall does not disappoint when you find her.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2451\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/L1003096.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2451\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2451\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/L1003096-700x468.jpg\" alt=\"Highway 80 South's Color Palette\" width=\"700\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/L1003096-700x468.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/L1003096-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/L1003096.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Highway 80 South&#8217;s Color Palette<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2452\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/L1003105.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2452\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2452\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/L1003105-700x468.jpg\" alt=\"Trout Stream - Burnsville, NC\" width=\"700\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/L1003105-700x468.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/L1003105-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/L1003105.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trout Stream &#8211; 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approach rather than hiking like planned. \u00a0We still made the most of it and enjoyed each moment and mile. \u00a0Special thanks to our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[71,52,5,72,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions\/2454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}