{"id":377,"date":"2011-05-15T22:02:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T03:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=377"},"modified":"2011-05-15T22:02:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T03:02:34","slug":"trail-days-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"Trail Days 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trail Days happens every year in mid-May in the small A.T. town of Damascus, Virginia.  We&#8217;d never managed to make it here hiking-wise before so we decided to stop by in a year that will involve very limited hiking (due to Melanie&#8217;s pregnancy).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_378\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-378\" style=\"width: 439px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/damascus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/damascus.jpg\" alt=\"Damascus, Virginia\" title=\"damascus\" width=\"439\" height=\"334\" class=\"size-full wp-image-378\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/damascus.jpg 439w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/damascus-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damascus, Virginia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually a much bigger festival than we expected.  The entire town is taken up with impromptu tent-colonies of current and former AT hikers.   There are vendors all over the town park of the sort you&#8217;d expect for a crowd of long distance hikers.  <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_379\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-379\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/trail-days.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/trail-days.jpg\" alt=\"Trail Days 2011\" title=\"trail days\" width=\"442\" height=\"284\" class=\"size-full wp-image-379\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/trail-days.jpg 442w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/trail-days-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trail Days 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trail Days happens every year in mid-May in the small A.T. town of Damascus, Virginia. We&#8217;d never managed to make it here hiking-wise before so we decided to stop by in a year that will involve very limited hiking (due to Melanie&#8217;s pregnancy). It&#8217;s actually a much bigger festival than we expected. The entire town &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=377\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trail Days 2011<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appalachian-trail","category-hiking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}