{"id":2070,"date":"2010-08-22T19:16:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T23:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2010-08-22T19:17:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T23:17:56","slug":"chatta-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=2070","title":{"rendered":"Chatta!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a wonderful weekend with my sweet wife, Kathy!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Chattanooga-Tennessee\/Raccoon-Mtn-810\/IMG3503\/978662158_Gvrcz-S.jpg\" alt=\"tk\" \/><br \/>\n Sure was good to get away from work for awhile!<\/p>\n<p>We had fun biking all around Raccoon Mountain, which is just outside Chattanooga!<\/p>\n<p>This is one of my favorite buildings in Chattanooga!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Chattanooga-Tennessee\/Raccoon-Mtn-810\/IMG3505\/978662419_mHgYN-S.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I liked this iron work on the North Shore of Chatta.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Chattanooga-Tennessee\/Raccoon-Mtn-810\/IMG3514\/978663847_CNecZ-S.jpg\" alt=\"i\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And this brass duck!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Chattanooga-Tennessee\/Raccoon-Mtn-810\/IMG3521\/978665481_xWj3p-S.jpg\" alt=\"d\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And this super cool bag from Japan!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Chattanooga-Tennessee\/Raccoon-Mtn-810\/IMG3525\/978666400_ckNcb-S.jpg\" alt=\"b\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We biked over 20 miles in the three days we were there.  May not sound like much, but for one of the days we basically pushed the bikes up a four mile mountain!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Chattanooga-Tennessee\/Raccoon-Mtn-810\/IMG3537\/978669275_fon5f-S.jpg\" alt=\"m\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Where kudzu is king!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Chattanooga-Tennessee\/Raccoon-Mtn-810\/IMG3527\/978667096_QPNcg-S.jpg\" alt=\"k\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love these delicate cirrus clouds.  I think they look like frosting.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Chattanooga-Tennessee\/Raccoon-Mtn-810\/IMG3532\/978668138_d8A2g-S.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beautiful butterflies!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Chattanooga-Tennessee\/Raccoon-Mtn-810\/IMG3535\/978668716_jwjHW-S.jpg\" alt=\"b\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I thought this flower was awesome!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Chattanooga-Tennessee\/Raccoon-Mtn-810\/IMG3530\/978667548_Phh77-S.jpg\" alt=\"f\" \/><br \/>\nI liked this folk art pig!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Chattanooga-Tennessee\/Raccoon-Mtn-810\/IMG3539\/978669675_ta3vW-S.jpg\" alt=\"p\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Did you really need to add the word &#8220;pair?&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Chattanooga-Tennessee\/Raccoon-Mtn-810\/IMG3551\/978672257_VhyZF-S.jpg\" alt=\"p\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dig this old truck!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Chattanooga-Tennessee\/Raccoon-Mtn-810\/IMG3568\/978675711_8tZ2C-S.jpg\" alt=\"t\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ever seen a license plate from Puerto Rico?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Chattanooga-Tennessee\/Raccoon-Mtn-810\/IMG3542\/978670313_biAcr-S.jpg\" alt=\"p\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We had some powerful thunderstorms!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Chattanooga-Tennessee\/Raccoon-Mtn-810\/IMG3543\/978670425_FPhtf-S.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><br \/>\nAfter the rain, the clouds would be super low.  I reckon that&#8217;s why they call them the Smoky Mountains.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Chattanooga-Tennessee\/Raccoon-Mtn-810\/IMG3573\/978676748_wKZSn-S.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beautiful sunsets over Cummings Lake.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Chattanooga-Tennessee\/Raccoon-Mtn-810\/IMG3575\/978677129_ziaGv-S.jpg\" alt=\"l\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a part of Emmanuel&#8217;s Army!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Chattanooga-Tennessee\/Raccoon-Mtn-810\/IMG3583\/978679007_g8aRK-S.jpg\" alt=\"a\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Chattanooga-Tennessee\/Raccoon-Mtn-810\/IMG3559\/978673784_rdgta-S.jpg\" alt=\"t\" \/><br \/>\nIt&#8217;d rained 3\/4&#8243; while we were gone!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Chattanooga-Tennessee\/Raccoon-Mtn-810\/IMG3585\/978679373_Vk5g6-S.jpg\" alt=\"r\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just a reminder:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Chattanooga-Tennessee\/Raccoon-Mtn-810\/IMG3506\/978662538_3rooK-S.jpg\" alt=\"bg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a wonderful weekend with my sweet wife, Kathy! Sure was good to get away from work for awhile! We had fun biking all around Raccoon Mountain, which is just outside Chattanooga! This is one of my favorite buildings in Chattanooga! I liked this iron work on the North Shore of Chatta. And this brass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2072,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions\/2072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}