{"id":473,"date":"2012-08-10T22:48:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T22:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=473"},"modified":"2012-08-10T22:48:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T22:48:35","slug":"kalona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"Kalona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8221;s Run: \u00a0Rest Day<\/p>\n<p>There is a quaint Amish community in Kalona, Iowa. \u00a0It is a blast from the past. \u00a0You enter the Stringtown Grocer to find it a little dimly lit. \u00a0They had not lit the gas lights yet that morning. We pick up bags of brown and Jasmine rice, some roasted soy beans and a jug of maple syrup. \u00a0Then it is next door to the dairy and the primary purpose of our visit to this quiet town.<\/p>\n<p>On our trip around the corner we see a horse and buggy going along the road.<\/p>\n<p>The Kalona Dairy. \u00a0Wow. \u00a0They make the BEST cheese curds there.<a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/vacation-8-10-2012-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-474\" title=\"making cheese curds\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/vacation-8-10-2012-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/vacation-8-10-2012-001.jpg 1600w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/vacation-8-10-2012-001-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/vacation-8-10-2012-001-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/vacation-8-10-2012-001-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8221;s Run: \u00a0Rest Day There is a quaint Amish community in Kalona, Iowa. \u00a0It is a blast from the past. \u00a0You enter the Stringtown Grocer to find it a little dimly lit. \u00a0They had not lit the gas lights yet that morning. We pick up bags of brown and Jasmine rice, some roasted soy beans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}