{"id":10052,"date":"2016-03-25T16:25:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T21:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=10052"},"modified":"2016-03-28T21:38:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T02:38:57","slug":"japanese-garden-maymont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=10052","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Garden \u2014 Maymont"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10054\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/img_20160325_120535-37.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10054\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10054\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/img_20160325_120535-37-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese Garden &#x2014; Maymont\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10054\" data-wp-pid=\"10054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/img_20160325_120535-37-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/img_20160325_120535-37-768x1154.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/img_20160325_120535-37-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/img_20160325_120535-37-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/img_20160325_120535-37-399x600.jpg 399w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/img_20160325_120535-37.jpg 1198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese Garden &#x2014; Maymont<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was a longish day today. I went to work in the morning and got a few things done. A friend brought her two children to work (because it&#8217;s spring break) and I was able to get a few nice pictures of them. Shortly after that Dorothy came and the two of us drove down to Richmond, Virginia. Traffic was pretty horrible but we finally got there. I dropped Dorothy off with a couple friends and went off to spend some time seeing things by myself.<\/p>\n<p>I started at Maymont, a 100-acre, municipal park that was the estate of James and Sallie Dooley, which they began building in 1893. It is on a very hilly site and quite varied. There is an Italian garden near the top of the hill and a steep walk down from there to the Japanese garden, which features a number of connected pools, large evergreen and flowering trees, and the waterfall pictured here. There are also some wildlife exhibits and a fairly broad collection of farm animal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a longish day today. I went to work in the morning and got a few things done. A friend brought her two children to work (because it&#8217;s spring break) and I was able to get a few nice pictures of them. Shortly after that Dorothy came and the two of us drove down &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=10052\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10056,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052\/revisions\/10056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}