{"id":840,"date":"2005-11-11T20:10:06","date_gmt":"2005-11-12T01:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=840"},"modified":"2005-11-11T20:13:35","modified_gmt":"2005-11-12T01:13:35","slug":"ocracoke-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/ocracoke-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocracoke discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yikes! <a href=\"http:\/\/travel2.nytimes.com\/2005\/11\/11\/travel\/11ocracoke.html\">Our favorite secret is a front page NYTimes Travel section feature.<\/a> Does this mean more people will be on the Island complaining about the slow service at the eateries? (Really are you in a hurry? There is no where to go which is sorta the point.) More people asking &#8220;What do you do here?&#8221; (Really do you have to be entertained? Doing nothing is sorta the point.)<\/p>\n<p>But worse the writer stays in the same little place on Silver Lake where we stay often and have rooms reserved for Thanksgiving. The picture the Times published is <a href=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2005\/11\/11\/travel\/OCRA.583.12.jpg\">our favorite view<\/a>. Several of the places she eats are our favs as well (Howard&#8217;s, Pelican, Ocracoke Coffee Company, Fig Tree, Cafe Atlantic), but several secrets are better kept and I&#8217;m keeping them myself.<\/p>\n<p>The Times automatic indexer managed to link Rudy Austin&#8217;s last name to a <a href=\"http:\/\/travel2.nytimes.com\/top\/features\/travel\/destinations\/unitedstates\/texas\/austin\/?inline=nyt-geo\">city in Texas<\/a>. His father took me over to <a href=\"javascript:pop_me_up2('http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/imagepages\/2005\/11\/11\/travel\/051111_OCRACOKE_map.html', '420_565', 'width=420,height=565,location=no,scrollbars=yes,toolbars=no,resizable=yes')\">Portsmouth Island<\/a> way back in the 1970s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yikes! Our favorite secret is a front page NYTimes Travel section feature. Does this mean more people will be on the Island complaining about the slow service at the eateries? (Really are you in a hurry? There is no where to go which is sorta the point.) More people asking &#8220;What do you do here?&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}