{"id":693,"date":"2010-05-02T14:07:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T21:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/?p=693"},"modified":"2010-05-25T14:24:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T21:24:31","slug":"a-day-in-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2010\/05\/02\/a-day-in-portland\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day in Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had my 15-year-old sister visit us in early May. She flew into Portland and the three of us spent the day there together.<\/p>\n<p>We went to Hoyt Arboretum.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Portland1 by fidget kt, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/15197746@N03\/4640176298\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4016\/4640176298_0de54c7e68_m.jpg\" alt=\"Portland1\" width=\"220\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Portland3 by fidget kt, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/15197746@N03\/4639567723\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4043\/4639567723_730955d792_m.jpg\" alt=\"Portland3\" width=\"220\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We saw a bunny, who reminded HN of her dear departed Toby.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Portland2 by fidget kt, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/15197746@N03\/4639566971\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4063\/4639566971_81e2f9fa81_m.jpg\" alt=\"Portland2\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Portland4 by fidget kt, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/15197746@N03\/4639567137\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4002\/4639567137_b2f374f41d_m.jpg\" alt=\"Portland4\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We saw lovely moss-covered scenery and native wildflowers.<\/p>\n<p>We had tacos for lunch and walked around downtown. We were amused at this dire warning to those who would ride their bikes over the streetcar tracks.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Portland6 by fidget kt, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/15197746@N03\/4640175476\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4026\/4640175476_5c9cfa1d0a.jpg\" alt=\"Portland6\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Portland5 by fidget kt, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/15197746@N03\/4640176528\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3383\/4640176528_c36b662dac_m.jpg\" alt=\"Portland5\" width=\"220\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Portland7 by fidget kt, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/15197746@N03\/4639568663\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4052\/4639568663_4ed5c06c16_m.jpg\" alt=\"Portland7\" width=\"220\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the late afternoon we took the streetcar to see Cirque Du Soleil <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2010\/05\/01\/kooza\/\">KOOZA!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Portland8 by fidget kt, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/15197746@N03\/4640175650\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4010\/4640175650_3f643bd617.jpg\" alt=\"Portland8\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was an amazing show. After a yummy pasta dinner we made our way home to Eugene, looking forward to a whole week with HN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had my 15-year-old sister visit us in early May. She flew into Portland and the three of us spent <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}