{"id":2033,"date":"2012-08-23T11:49:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T18:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2012-08-23T11:49:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T18:49:40","slug":"back-from-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2033","title":{"rendered":"Back from St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  \"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/siduri\/7840438474\/\" title=\"015 by Jo Shannon Phillips, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7115\/7840438474_d6bb435e38.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"415\" alt=\"015\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We flew to St. Louis last week to visit Nanita and Markie, and had a great time doing all the tourist stuff: eating toasted ravioli, going to the Arch, visiting Grant&#8217;s Farm, touring the zoo&#8230; The weather was great for our trip, too. It&#8217;s been unbearably hot, but the heat broke just as we touched down, and we enjoyed balmy 80-degree days during our stay. It was just hot enough to cool down with a sno-cone:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  \"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/siduri\/7840425378\/\" title=\"039 by Jo Shannon Phillips, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8299\/7840425378_2b8de0886d.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"415\" alt=\"039\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Robin rode the carousel, and Davy was intimidated by goats:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  \"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/siduri\/7840428670\/\" title=\"035 by Jo Shannon Phillips, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8437\/7840428670_4daa60b280.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"415\" alt=\"035\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  \"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/siduri\/7840432202\/\" title=\"025 by Jo Shannon Phillips, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8434\/7840432202_5a08f460c5.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"415\" alt=\"025\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pick me up, Mommy! Goats will eat me!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We left impressed <em>again<\/em> with St. Louis&#8217; livability and affordability: we saw charming four-bedroom homes, in walkable neighborhoods with shops and parks, selling for $200K. We love our own bungalow, but it&#8217;s likely that we&#8217;ll be outgrowing our sweet little two-bedroom home soon&#8212;and the shops near us are mostly boarded up, and the crime is a constant low-level worry, and&#8230;what with one thing and another, the whole &#8220;maybe we should move to St. Louis&#8221; conversation has been resurrected. It&#8217;s a question we&#8217;ll probably reconsider seriously at the end of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We flew to St. Louis last week to visit Nanita and Markie, and had a great time doing all the tourist stuff: eating toasted ravioli, going to the Arch, visiting Grant&#8217;s Farm, touring the zoo&#8230; The weather was great for our trip, too. It&#8217;s been unbearably hot, but the heat broke just as we touched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2035,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}