{"id":5748,"date":"2013-05-27T13:50:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T17:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=5748"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:13","slug":"great-place-for-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2013\/05\/great-place-for-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Place for Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/bigcreek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5749\" title=\"Big Creek and Mouse Creek Falls - Click to Enlarge\" src=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/bigcreek-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/bigcreek-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/bigcreek.jpg 410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a>I hiked along <a href=\"http:\/\/hikingthecarolinas.com\/bigc.php\">Big Creek<\/a> for several hours last Saturday afternoon.\u00a0 Big Creek is a tributary of the Pigeon River running along the <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=35.752,+-83.1074&amp;hl=en&amp;ll=35.764204,-83.097925&amp;spn=0.051886,0.105486&amp;sll=35.751798,-83.107399&amp;sspn=0.006487,0.013186&amp;t=h&amp;z=14\">North Carolina &#8211; Tennessee border<\/a>. \u00a0 Beautiful location.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure it will be even prettier in a few weeks when the rhododendrons are blooming.<\/p>\n<p>I went there not for the flowers, however, but for the water (click image to enlarge). To me, nothing evokes the sense of well-being and wonder that a flowing creek does.<\/p>\n<p>Here are two videos I shot.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3Jd9ZwFWwtw\">The first spot<\/a> is a great place to have lunch.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NlytZLJgq2I\">The second<\/a> is at Mouse Creek Falls (left).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hiked along Big Creek for several hours last Saturday afternoon.\u00a0 Big Creek is a tributary of the Pigeon River running along the North Carolina &#8211; Tennessee border. \u00a0 Beautiful location.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure it will be even prettier in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2013\/05\/great-place-for-lunch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5748"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28339,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5748\/revisions\/28339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}