{"id":34869,"date":"2025-10-27T21:28:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34869"},"modified":"2025-10-27T21:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:28:17","slug":"a-sign-on-the-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34869","title":{"rendered":"A Sign on the Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a wee lad, from the carport of our house I could see the Endless Caverns sign on the side of Massanutten Mountain.<\/p>\n<p>Driving home today, I stopped at the rest area near New Market, crossed the truck parking, and from the hillside took some photos.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_20251027_1717268272-1200x675.jpg\" alt=\"Endless Caverns, on the side of Massanutten Mountain\" class=\"aligncenter size-fullwidth wp-image-34868\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Things don&#8217;t change much in forty years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a wee lad, from the carport of our house I could see the Endless Caverns sign on the side of Massanutten Mountain. Driving home today, I stopped at the rest area near New Market, crossed the truck parking, and from the hillside took some photos. Things don&#8217;t change much in forty years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[5332,4494,213],"class_list":["post-34869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-endless-caverns","tag-shenandoah-valley","tag-virginia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}