{"id":10915,"date":"2023-09-15T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=10915"},"modified":"2023-09-17T23:01:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T03:01:57","slug":"view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/09\/view\/","title":{"rendered":"View"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m on a brief road trip to the Connecticut River Valley. After driving through heavy and slow traffic along the Mass Pike &#8212; there must have been a lot of people going away for the weekend today &#8212; I arrived at Mount Tom State Reservation with just three hours before the park closed. I got up to Whiting Peak, then walked along the New England Trail with dramatic views over Easthampton west to the the Berkshire Hills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/71650316920__87201EB5-D66A-4A1C-9AB1-DA08D354ACB7-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Rocky ledge in foreground, with view over a valley.\" class=\"wp-image-10916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/71650316920__87201EB5-D66A-4A1C-9AB1-DA08D354ACB7-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/71650316920__87201EB5-D66A-4A1C-9AB1-DA08D354ACB7-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/71650316920__87201EB5-D66A-4A1C-9AB1-DA08D354ACB7-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/71650316920__87201EB5-D66A-4A1C-9AB1-DA08D354ACB7-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/71650316920__87201EB5-D66A-4A1C-9AB1-DA08D354ACB7-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/71650316920__87201EB5-D66A-4A1C-9AB1-DA08D354ACB7.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The view from the New England Trail, just below Whiting Peak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m spending the night in a motel in Ludlow, and tomorrow I&#8217;ll be on a Mass Audubon botany field trip. I would have liked to have more time to explore Mount Tom today. But it&#8217;s good to get away for even this brief time, just to recharge my spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on a brief road trip to the Connecticut River Valley. After driving through heavy and slow traffic along the Mass Pike &#8212; there must have been a lot of people going away for the weekend today &#8212; I arrived at Mount Tom State Reservation with just three hours before the park closed. I got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/09\/view\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;View&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10917,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10915\/revisions\/10917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}