{"id":583,"date":"2017-07-03T17:24:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T21:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=583"},"modified":"2017-07-03T17:24:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T21:24:42","slug":"174-sky-meadows-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"174. Sky Meadows State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017_07_03-2-Sky-Meadows.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017_07_03-2-Sky-Meadows.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017_07_03-2-Sky-Meadows.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017_07_03-2-Sky-Meadows-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I checked out one of the Nature Backpacks from Fairfax County Public Library &#8211; which included a free pass to any Virginia State Park.  <\/p>\n<p>The two closest state parks are Sky Meadows and Mason Neck.  I checked weather, and Sky Meadows was 5 degrees cooler today.  Unfortunately, I failed to realize that at Mason Neck, I probably wouldn&#8217;t have hiked up a mountainside in direct sunlight.  But anyway, I had a lovely time, got a major workout, did not get heatstroke, and lost a lot of weight in the form of sweat!<\/p>\n<p>But &#8211; it was a beautiful time!  I hope to return &#8211; in Autumn or Spring or maybe even Winter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017_07_03-1-Butterfly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017_07_03-1-Butterfly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017_07_03-1-Butterfly.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017_07_03-1-Butterfly-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I checked out one of the Nature Backpacks from Fairfax County Public Library &#8211; which included a free pass to any Virginia State Park. The two closest state parks are Sky Meadows and Mason Neck. I checked weather, and Sky Meadows was 5 degrees cooler today. Unfortunately, I failed to realize that at Mason Neck, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,9,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}