{"id":2604,"date":"2013-11-17T11:06:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T19:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2013-11-24T11:20:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T19:20:05","slug":"ohio-marietta-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=2604","title":{"rendered":"Ohio, Marietta trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">As usual, more and higher res shots of this trip can be found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/andrewlong\/sets\/72157638009880756\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5549\/11023532203_4738a321a2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After my class on Friday my parents picked me up at the airport after I returned my car rental. \u00a0We went to dinner at a BBQ restaurant with two of my aunts before heading home to Marietta.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3766\/11023398314_e7aab2ab17.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The next day we watched the football game before mom and I went to the Marietta Veterans Memorial where several of my family members have a brick.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7450\/11023463383_48d9e8f56c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7406\/11023425684_716ea3603c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After dinner mom and I went out photo-hunting.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2807\/11023356476_21699dd70d.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3732\/11023481843_919d4448ca.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2814\/11023486053_965fcaa5fe.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2866\/11023383596_4994e9d185.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7407\/11023501033_bbcabbbc06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3816\/11023394786_01d955f4d1.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBefore leaving on Sunday I went out and took more photos of some of the decrepit ramshackle tumble-down houses that dot the whole area now.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5546\/11023427494_9be88721e6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2837\/11023491584_ffa31c3627.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7308\/11023494724_566ea5b353.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5471\/11023420726_c8005e0183.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There would have been more pictures of poverty in the &#8220;dog patch&#8221; or &#8220;holler&#8221; near my parents&#8217; house, but when we&#8217;d stopped on the road the dogs began barking and my mother was worried about one of the residents shooting at us. \u00a0As a consequence I didn&#8217;t have time to get a clean unblurred shot of any of the fantastic squalor down there in the woods by the creek.<\/p>\n<p>On our way to the airport we stopped at the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/cgi-bin\/fg.cgi?page=cr&amp;CRid=43091\" target=\"_blank\"> Ava Maria Cemetery<\/a> where one (or more?) of my paternal ancestors is buried.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5504\/11023344275_696190f10e.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3701\/11023513834_c5c7a72f07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5504\/11023354125_20cd32e1a9.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, more and higher res shots of this trip can be found\u00a0here. After my class on Friday my parents picked me up at the airport after I returned my car rental. \u00a0We went to dinner at a BBQ restaurant with two of my aunts before heading home to Marietta. The next day we watched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2607,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}