{"id":564,"date":"2009-01-11T18:50:20","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T22:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=564"},"modified":"2009-01-11T19:39:57","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T23:39:57","slug":"weekend-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, Kathy and I hiked half way up Stone Mountain.\u00a0 It was kind of sprinkling, but still beautiful.\u00a0 Very peaceful.\u00a0 Nice restful day.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/453137374_hDPBM-M.jpg\" alt=\"m\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/453137701_XDVoK-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\nI also thought that the Snow Mountain attraction (new this year!) was really cool. K and I want to go down it once it&#8217;s open.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/453137840_z2u8k-M.jpg\" alt=\"s2\" \/><br \/>\nI taught the kids how to shoot a rifle yesterday.  I&#8217;m a real pro-nature, live and let live, bird feeding kind of guy.  But when I was younger I used to hunt and shoot guns a lot.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/452563185_uxR6Q-M.jpg\" alt=\"bb\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/452563138_5p2Gs-M.jpg\" alt=\"bb\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/453136359_RmAdb-M.jpg\" alt=\"bb\" \/><br \/>\nSunday morning we went over to see our friends at Truth Tabernacle of Praise church with Pastor Bobby Atkins.\u00a0 He did a great job.\u00a0 We especially enjoyed the music.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/453138115_XQqAo-M.jpg\" alt=\"t\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/453138186_PHpjv-M.jpg\" alt=\"t\" \/><br \/>\nThis afternoon we went to see the First Emperor exhibit of the terracota soldiers from China at the High Museum.\u00a0 It was awesome.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/453139740_EnUaJ-M.jpg\" alt=\"t\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/453139925_aAuUu-M.jpg\" alt=\"t\" \/><br \/>\n The only downside to the exhibits is that I&#8217;m not allowed to take pictures.\u00a0 Part of me doesn&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;ve really seen it unless I also see it through the lens of a camera.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also the final year of the partnership with the Louvre\/High.\u00a0 This final year is the Masterpiece editions.\u00a0 I especially enjoyed the painting of the Astronomer by Vermeer.\u00a0 I also saw a piece of pottery from Mesopotamia that was over 4,000 years old!\u00a0 Kathy said, &#8220;Doesn&#8217;t that make you feel young?&#8221;\u00a0 Have to admit, it did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, Kathy and I hiked half way up Stone Mountain.\u00a0 It was kind of sprinkling, but still beautiful.\u00a0 Very peaceful.\u00a0 Nice restful day. I also thought that the Snow Mountain attraction (new this year!) was really cool. K and I want to go down it once it&#8217;s open. I taught the kids how to shoot [&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\/564"}],"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=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}