{"id":545,"date":"2009-10-11T21:13:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T01:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2012-01-22T10:21:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T16:21:04","slug":"howd-ya-like-them-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"How&#8217;d ya like them apples?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3482\/3998681129_51b1bf3d38.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0039\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Screw the rules&#8230; the best ones are at the top<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2445\/3998680283_1a43ef5c8a.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0026\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2501\/3999446486_d3221f59e6.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0067\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2514\/3999445178_c0267f5841.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0050\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2476\/3999446186_72fba6e46d.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0066\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2454\/3998681393_8f5918a713.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0042\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hartland Orchard (an hour and a half from DC near the Shenandoah Valley in the Blue Ridge Mountains of VA) was the adventure of this weekend and supplied us with apples, pumpkins, apple-butter, and good &#8216;ol commercial-free farm fun. And, had the weather been a bit less damp, we would have taken Milo on his first hay ride&#8230; next year for sure. We had a great time and brought home 102 lbs of apples. Yum!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Also in the vicinity were several vineyards that we wanted to buy some local wine from. We chose <em>Don&#8217;t Bring Your Children Within a Hundred Yards of Our Property Vineyard<\/em>, also known as <em>We Suck Vineyard<\/em>, and commonly referred to by the locals as <em>We Have Our Noses Up Our Own Assholes But We Can Still Smell Young Flesh Vineyard<\/em>. They escorted us out. I kind of wish I had made a scene, just for fun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2440\/3999447308_9a4498b3b3.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0075\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3501\/3999447608_13280b8b6b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0082\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The view from the parking lot where we let Milo pee on some grapes. Just kidding&#8230; or am I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Screw the rules&#8230; the best ones are at the top Hartland Orchard (an hour and a half from DC near the Shenandoah Valley in the Blue Ridge Mountains of VA) was the adventure of this weekend and supplied us with apples, pumpkins, apple-butter, and good &#8216;ol commercial-free farm fun. And, had the weather been a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=545\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How&#8217;d ya like them apples?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[74,75],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-favorite-places","tag-adventures","tag-ingenius-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}