{"id":7574,"date":"2014-12-09T15:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/?p=7574"},"modified":"2014-12-11T13:43:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T18:43:17","slug":"raymond-around-the-world-blue-ridge-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/raymond-around-the-world-blue-ridge-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Raymond Around the World: Blue Ridge Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple months after we visited <a href=\"\/blog\/raymond-around-the-world-new-york-city\/\">NYC<\/a>, Raymond and I went out of town again to celebrate another birthday. This time we went to the Blue Ridge Mountains outside Asheville, NC for my best friend&#8217;s birthday. All of us enjoyed relaxing while surrounded by nature, as it&#8217;s very peaceful in the mountains. While there, Raymond pointed out that the crisp mountain air was almost as refreshing as the air at the North Pole.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/macc1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" \/>\n<h6>Enjoying the sunshine and blue skies<\/h6>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/macc2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/>\n<h6>Taking a big whiff of the fresh mountain air<\/h6>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/macc3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/>\n<h6>Raymond loved the gorgeous sunsets from atop the mountain<\/h6>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/macc4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/>\n<h6>One happy reindeer<\/h6>\n<p>Where else do you think Raymond went this year? Stay tuned to find out! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple months after we visited NYC, Raymond and I went out of town again to celebrate another birthday. This time we went to the Blue Ridge Mountains outside Asheville, NC for my best friend&#8217;s birthday. All of us enjoyed relaxing while surrounded by nature, as it&#8217;s very peaceful in the mountains. While there, Raymond&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/raymond-around-the-world-blue-ridge-mountains\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-raymond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7574"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7654,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7574\/revisions\/7654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}