{"id":34898,"date":"2025-11-20T11:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34898"},"modified":"2025-11-20T11:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:26:12","slug":"i-need-to-see-mountains-again-gandalf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34898","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Need to See Mountains Again, Gandalf&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been down in Virginia recently, and I stopped on occasion to take photos of mountains.  A little too late in the year for the fall foliage, unfortunately, but still, there were some lovely vistas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-fullwidth is-style-scotch-tape-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"540\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251110_090334-1200x540.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34893\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The view from Afton Mountain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-fullwidth is-style-scotch-tape\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251113_101605-1200x720.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34894\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The James River, east of Glasgow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-fullwidth is-style-scotch-tape-left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251113_102322-1200x720.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34896\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Looking north from Glasgow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-fullwidth is-style-scotch-tape-left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251113_102300-1200x720.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34895\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Looking south from Glasgow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-fullwidth is-style-scotch-tape\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251119_114430-1200x720.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34897\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Massanutten Mountain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been down in Virginia recently, and I stopped on occasion to take photos of mountains. A little too late in the year for the fall foliage, unfortunately, but still, there were some lovely vistas.<\/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":[4494,213],"class_list":["post-34898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-shenandoah-valley","tag-virginia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34898","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=34898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}