{"id":13824,"date":"2015-08-06T14:10:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T21:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=13824"},"modified":"2015-08-06T14:11:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T21:11:01","slug":"vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/06\/vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"vacation!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, it’s been a little bit crazy these past couple weeks. I got back from the Methow festival<\/a> a week ago Wednesday, then headed out to the Blue Mountains for a camping trip, my only real vacation time of the summer. I got back yesterday, and tonight I head to the Sunriver Music Festival<\/a> for ten days. Granted, I spend much of my summer in vacation settings, but I’m usually working at the time. This was a great trip to be free of the viola, obligations, and electricity and running water. Here are a few photos from the trip.<\/p>\n

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Ok, it’s been a little bit crazy these past couple weeks. I got back from the Methow festival a week ago Wednesday, then headed out to the Blue Mountains for a camping trip, my only real vacation time of the summer. I got back yesterday, and tonight I head to the Sunriver Music Festival for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":13830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,138],"tags":[3652,3650,3666,3651],"class_list":["post-13824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oregon","category-summer-festivals","tag-blue-mountains","tag-camping","tag-oregon","tag-vacation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sa8kC-vacation","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13835,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/10\/last-festival-great-scenery\/","url_meta":{"origin":13824,"position":0},"title":"last festival, great scenery","author":"Charles Noble","date":"August 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Another week, another festival! 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