{"id":670,"date":"2009-12-03T20:18:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T03:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/?p=670"},"modified":"2010-09-02T05:00:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T12:00:30","slug":"tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"Howdy, Music City!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our first stop in Tennessee was the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.<\/p>\n

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\"Now<\/a>

Now I know why they call them "Smoky"<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Appalachian Trail<\/p><\/div>\n

We went on a hike to the Chimney Tops, two rocks that are suppose to look like chimneys.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a great, but really strenuous hike.\u00c2\u00a0 I was glad to make it to the top and take a break before heading back to the car.<\/p>\n

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\"The<\/a>

The top seemed more like rock climbing than hiking<\/p><\/div>\n

\"View<\/a>

View from the top<\/p><\/div>\n

After a night of pouring rain we decided to head to Nashville.\u00c2\u00a0 We were lucky to catch open mic night at the famous Bluebird Cafe.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 We got to see a lot of talented songwriters preforming their works.\u00c2\u00a0 The next morning we even heard one of the guys from the Bluebird on an NPR program.<\/p>\n

\"Bluebird<\/a>

Bluebird Cafe<\/p><\/div>\n

One day two we visited Andrew Jackson’s mansion, the Hermitage, then we headed for downtown Nashville to check out Broadway Street, get a little BBQ, and watch the Grand Ole Opry at the historic Ryman Auditorium.\u00c2\u00a0 Even though we are not huge country music fans, we had a great time.\u00c2\u00a0 I might even go get me some cowboy boots.\u00c2\u00a0 Yee Ha!<\/p>\n

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\"Broadway<\/a>

Broadway Street, home to the Honky Tonk bars<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"In<\/a>

In front of the Ryman<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Dierks<\/a>

Dierks Bentley at the Grand Ole Opry<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our first stop in Tennessee was the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. We went on a hike to the Chimney Tops, two rocks that are suppose to look like chimneys.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a great, but really strenuous hike.\u00c2\u00a0 I was glad to make it to the top and take a break before heading back to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,4],"tags":[26,94,63],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennessee","category-usa","tag-national-parks","tag-usa","tag-world-heritage-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1383,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}