{"id":52,"date":"2005-08-29T01:17:19","date_gmt":"2005-08-28T22:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/?p=52"},"modified":"2005-08-31T02:14:25","modified_gmt":"2005-08-30T23:14:25","slug":"a-perfect-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"A Perfect Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/journal_20050829a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/journal_20050829b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bridget, RJ, and I had a really fantastic trip to Bcharre, a Christian village high above the stunnning Qadisha Valley.  We rented a car, which turned out to be fun.  I was much more comfortable driving than when I drove here in 2002.  <\/p>\n<p>We stayed in the same hotel in which Ethan and I had spent Christmas back in 2002.  Mr. Chbat is an excellent host.  He looks a bit like Sean Connery and is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to hiking in the area.  At the end of our stay, he presented us with a huge jar of homemade apricot jam to take home.  The hotel itself is sort of a 50s lodge, rather cozy and funky.<\/p>\n<p>We dropped off our belongings and drove to a hermitage down in the valley (narrow road with plenty of blind curves and hairpin turns).   The monastery is embedded in a cliff and is utterly peaceful inside.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, we checked out a grotto with octopus-like stalactites and then wandered among the ancient cedar trees for which Lebanon is famous.  Driving back to Bcharre from the Cedars, we stopped to gaze at\/photograph the layer of clouds that had rolled in far below us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridget, RJ, and I had a really fantastic trip to Bcharre, a Christian village high above the stunnning Qadisha Valley. We rented a car, which turned out to be fun. I was much more comfortable driving than when I drove here in 2002. We stayed in the same hotel in which Ethan and I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}