{"id":204,"date":"2007-04-28T10:29:17","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T20:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=204"},"modified":"2007-04-28T10:48:32","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T20:48:32","slug":"a-drive-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"A Drive in the Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s outing after Leilani&#8217;s nap was a drive through the countryside, which is more of an adult activity. The weather has been nice for so long that the views were a bit hazy, but we won&#8217;t complain:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/18m\/Countryside-1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/18m\/Countryside-600.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The small villages are very pretty, especially when we find an old wooden farmhouse:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/18m\/WoodenFarmhouse-1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/18m\/WoodenFarmhouse-600.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We drove along the Steirische \u00c4pfelStrasse (Steirmark region Apple Road) which effectively runs through miles and miles of apple orchards. Fruit products are a big export in this region because the weather tends to be relatively warm and sunny. Most orchards are now dwarf trees under rows of netting, but we found some old-fashioned trees in bloom:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/18m\/AppleTrees-1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/18m\/AppleTrees-600.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the parents had their fill of sightseeing, we had to stop and let the baby out of the car seat. The town of Puch had a picturesque church, a swing for Leilani, and lots of flowers for her to smell (and for her parents to film and photograph):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/18m\/ChurchInPuch-1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/18m\/ChurchInPuch-600.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/18m\/SwingingInPuch-1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/18m\/SwingingInPuch-600.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/18m\/pansies-1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/18m\/pansies-600.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s outing after Leilani&#8217;s nap was a drive through the countryside, which is more of an adult activity. The weather has been nice for so long that the views were a bit hazy, but we won&#8217;t complain: The small villages&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}