{"id":526,"date":"2008-10-30T22:58:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T05:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/?p=526"},"modified":"2008-10-30T22:58:01","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T05:58:01","slug":"shenandoah-bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"Shenandoah bliss"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there\u00a0was a more beautiful place on earth than the Shenandoah Valley on October 30, 2008, I cannot imagine where it could be.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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It is testament that it took me over 20 minutes of searching Google images to find a photo that even comes close to capturing\u00a0my experience today, and frankly, even this one falls short.<\/p>\n

It was almost as though nature was saying, ‘yeah I know I tossed you around a bit these past few weeks but, check this out’.<\/p>\n

Under stunningly blue skies, I made my way as slowly as traffic would permit\u00a0through rolling hills blanketed in textured foliage.\u00a0 The working farms and this region’s respect for their architecture\u00a0simply completed the experience. \u00a0And God bless Virginia for banning billboards.\u00a0 It was perfection.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tonight I began the process of reviewing the tapes and attempting to put a context around my experience.\u00a0 Tomorrow I will make my way into Washington DC and my hope is to share with you some final observations and thoughts.<\/p>\n

For now, I can only express my thanks for your encouragement, kind words, prayers and love.\u00a0 They all made\u00a0the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If there\u00a0was a more beautiful place on earth than the Shenandoah Valley on October 30, 2008, I cannot imagine where it could be.\u00a0 It is testament that it took me over 20 minutes of searching Google images to find a photo that even comes close to capturing\u00a0my experience today, and frankly, even this one falls […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}