{"id":516,"date":"2014-01-26T23:32:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T04:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=516"},"modified":"2014-02-18T23:45:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T04:45:10","slug":"carl-sandburg-home-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"Carl Sandburg Home NHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sandburg Home is a National Historic Site, not necessarily where one would normally think to go hiking but now that we have a two year old along, we&#8217;re looking for shorter scenic hikes that involve farm animals. Well, not necessarily but it&#8217;s a nice bonus.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_517\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-517\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/goats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-517\" alt=\"goat herd\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/goats.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/goats.jpg 576w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/goats-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">goat herd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mrs. Sandburg kept a prize-winning herd of dairy goats and their descendants still live at the home in Flat Rock, NC. Most of this site is free by the way. The goat barn and pens as well as several miles of trail that loop around the property or go up to the top of a nearby hill. The only cost is for touring the home itself.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_518\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-518\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/home.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-518\" alt=\"Carl Sandburg Home\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/home.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/home.jpg 600w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/home-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carl Sandburg Home<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We did not tour the home as it did not have nearly as much intrinsic attraction value as say, a goat. At least for a two year old. We did take several trails around the property though and overall it&#8217;s a pretty nice location for a short hike. It is particularly popular with dog walkers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sandburg Home is a National Historic Site, not necessarily where one would normally think to go hiking but now that we have a two year old along, we&#8217;re looking for shorter scenic hikes that involve farm animals. Well, not necessarily but it&#8217;s a nice bonus. Mrs. Sandburg kept a prize-winning herd of dairy goats &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=516\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Carl Sandburg Home NHS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}