{"id":558,"date":"2012-05-03T23:35:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T03:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=558"},"modified":"2012-05-12T21:42:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T01:42:58","slug":"almost-sunset-clingmans-dome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"Almost Sunset &#8211; Clingmans Dome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Park Service:\u00a0 <em>At 6,643 feet, Clingmans Dome is the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is the highest point in Tennessee, and the third highest mountain east of the Mississippi. Only Mt. Mitchell (6,684 feet) and Mt. Craig (6,647), both located in Mt. Mitchell State Park in western North Carolina, rise higher. The observation tower on the summit of Clingmans Dome offers spectacular 360\u00b0 views of the Smokies and beyond for visitors willing to climb the steep half-mile walk to the tower at the top.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_559\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-559\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-559\" title=\"GSMNP_0590\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/GSMNP_0590-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/GSMNP_0590-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/GSMNP_0590-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/GSMNP_0590.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just before sunset at Clingmans Dome, Great Smoky Mountains National Park<\/p><\/div>\n<p>5D MkII, 135L, 1\/30sec @ f\/9.0, ISO 100<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Park Service:\u00a0 At 6,643 feet, Clingmans Dome is the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is the highest point in Tennessee, and the third highest mountain east of the Mississippi. Only Mt. Mitchell (6,684 feet) and Mt. Craig (6,647), both located in Mt. Mitchell State Park in western North Carolina, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558"}],"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=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}