{"id":59,"date":"2019-09-26T16:49:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T20:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2019-09-26T16:51:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T20:51:49","slug":"sculpture-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Sculpture Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Derek teaches a night class, and I&#8217;m at home for now until I find a job, so we have the morning and the early afternoons together. It&#8217;s nice that he has the time to spend with me, instead of when he was a busy student at the University of Houston, so we try to put most mornings to good use. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week I looked online for free things to do in Chattanooga, and we found Sculpture Fields at Montague Park. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to sculpturefields.org, the park is 33 acres, and is the largest sculpture park in the Southeast. 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It&#8217;s nice that he has the time to spend with me, instead of when he was a busy student at the University of Houston, so we try to put &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/?p=59\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sculpture Fields&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,5,65],"tags":[8,68,67,66,57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}