{"id":35226,"date":"2026-02-18T19:21:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35226"},"modified":"2026-02-18T19:21:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:21:56","slug":"the-view-from-afton-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35226","title":{"rendered":"The View from Afton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I drove to Lynchburg today &#8212; my dad has doctor appointments tomorrow and Friday &#8212; and stopped on Afton at the overlook. It was overcast but clear looking down into Rockfish Gap.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_20260218_162316_317-1200x675.jpg\" alt=\"Rockfish Gap, as seen from Afton\" class=\"aligncenter size-fullwidth wp-image-35225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t say it was a nice day for a drive &#8212; it was foggy in Pennsylvania, and the recent glacier remains though diminished &#8212; but the trip passed quickly enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I drove to Lynchburg today &#8212; my dad has doctor appointments tomorrow and Friday &#8212; and stopped on Afton at the overlook. It was overcast but clear looking down into Rockfish Gap. I won&#8217;t say it was a nice day for a drive &#8212; it was foggy in Pennsylvania, and the recent glacier remains though<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35226\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The View from Afton&#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":[52],"tags":[5230,4644],"class_list":["post-35226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-afton-mountain","tag-lynchburg","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35226","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=35226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}