{"id":10776,"date":"2013-08-18T19:03:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T23:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=10776"},"modified":"2013-08-25T09:52:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T13:52:54","slug":"weekend-travels-deep-creek-lake-swallow-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/10776","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Travels: Deep Creek Lake &#038; Swallow Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was move-in weekend, so as a Morgantown resident, I knew there was only one thing to do: get the hell out of town.<\/p>\n<p>We chose to drive east, to the Maryland State Parks of Deep Creek Lake and Swallow Falls. Having grown up in WV, where all the State Parks are free, it always comes as a bit of a shock when we have to pay to get in. But <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/10773\">considering the amount of damage at Swallow Falls State Park from Hurricane Sandy<\/a>, I couldn&#8217;t really complain.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/9536860651\/\" title=\"20130817_Swallow_Falls_199 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2813\/9536860651_12d673bc35.jpg?resize=400%2C500\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" alt=\"20130817_Swallow_Falls_199\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/9536853319\/\" title=\"20130817_Swallow_Falls_143 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7445\/9536853319_2fa3209cb9.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"20130817_Swallow_Falls_143\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/9539642376\/\" title=\"20130817_Swallow_Falls_131 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2873\/9539642376_1a13db9456.jpg?resize=333%2C500\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"20130817_Swallow_Falls_131\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/9536857077\/\" title=\"20130817_Swallow_Falls_160 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2855\/9536857077_8f071b6fbc.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"20130817_Swallow_Falls_160\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(You really should click through and look at the other pictures of that rock. I found it fascinating. Michael preferred to stand far back from it.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/9539637314\/\" title=\"20130817_Swallow_Falls_080 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5529\/9539637314_1ee5bd2d42.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"20130817_Swallow_Falls_080\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/9539638062\/\" title=\"20130817_Swallow_Falls_094 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3806\/9539638062_cf37863f56.jpg?resize=500%2C220\" width=\"500\" height=\"220\" alt=\"20130817_Swallow_Falls_094\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/9536850799\/\" title=\"20130817_Swallow_Falls_113 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3789\/9536850799_3daaecfc49.jpg?resize=333%2C500\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"20130817_Swallow_Falls_113\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More pictures, if you click through to Flickr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was move-in weekend, so as a Morgantown resident, I knew there was only one thing to do: get the hell out of town. We chose to drive east, to the Maryland State Parks of Deep Creek Lake and Swallow Falls. Having grown up in WV, where all the State Parks are free, it always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1065,22,1058],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ricky-martin-the-metal-chicken","category-photos","category-travel-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-2NO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}