{"id":4339,"date":"2018-06-14T22:42:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T22:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/?p=4339"},"modified":"2018-06-14T22:42:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T22:42:19","slug":"wednesday-in-the-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/?p=4339","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday in the mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday we slept in a bit, since we didn&#8217;t get back to the hotel from seeing the fireflies until well after midnight.\u00a0 We got up and hit the road back to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park as soon as we could, though, so we could spent the day getting some hiking in.\u00a0 We stopped at our first overlook of the day, looking\u00a0down on the city of Gatlinburg,\u00a0before we ever even got to the park.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just so beautiful there, and you can definitely tell why they&#8217;re called the Blue Ridge Mountains in this picture.\u00a0 We could also see evidence of the wildfire two years ago.<a href=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_2042.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4337\" src=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_2042-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_2042-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_2042-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_2042-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_2042-690x518.jpg 690w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_2042-980x735.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We checked out the visitor center, went on a pretty short hike to show Mason his first waterfall, and then decided to drive that beautiful (curvy) road from Gatlinburg to Cherokee. We stopped at Newfound Gap, right on the TN\/NC State Line, to explore there for a while &#8211; rain or no rain \ud83d\ude42<a href=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180613_133922.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4338\" src=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180613_133922-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180613_133922-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180613_133922-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180613_133922-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180613_133922-690x388.jpg 690w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180613_133922-980x551.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday we slept in a bit, since we didn&#8217;t get back to the hotel from seeing the fireflies until well after midnight.\u00a0 We got up and hit the road back to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park as soon as we could, though, so we could spent the day getting some hiking in.\u00a0 We stopped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4340,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339\/revisions\/4340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}