{"id":417,"date":"2012-04-22T20:43:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T01:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=417"},"modified":"2012-04-30T20:49:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T01:49:24","slug":"barnett-knob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=417","title":{"rendered":"Barnett Knob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First a note of warning &#8211; this is not a very interesting hike. In fact it&#8217;s probably not even worth an entry. Barnett Knob is one of those lookout towers we&#8217;ve driven past on the BRP a dozen times and so we finally decided to hike up and check it out.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-418\" style=\"width: 326px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_4409.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-418\" title=\"IMG_4409\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_4409.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_4409.jpg 326w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_4409-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barnett Knob<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is just a few miles from the southern terminus at Cherokee\/Smoky Mountains NP. There&#8217;s a forest road up to the summit but not much of a view once you get there. Some nice wildflowers along the way is about the best we can say for this hike.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_419\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-419\" style=\"width: 422px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/paintbrush.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-419\" title=\"paintbrush\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/paintbrush.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/paintbrush.jpg 422w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/paintbrush-289x300.jpg 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian Paintbrush<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First a note of warning &#8211; this is not a very interesting hike. In fact it&#8217;s probably not even worth an entry. Barnett Knob is one of those lookout towers we&#8217;ve driven past on the BRP a dozen times and so we finally decided to hike up and check it out. This is just a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=417\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Barnett Knob<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-ridge-parkway","category-hiking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","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=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}