{"id":1922,"date":"2015-11-04T09:09:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T16:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2015-11-04T10:55:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T17:55:44","slug":"heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/?p=1922","title":{"rendered":"Heaven &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN8798.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1916\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN8798-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN8798\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN8798.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN8798-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If there is a heaven, I imagine it looks something like Powell&#8217;s City of Books in Portland, Oregon. The world&#8217;s largest independent bookstore is a city block, with four stories. When we arrived we grabbed a map of the store &#8230; and then spent several hours exploring! The four of us each found something irresistible &#8211; and left with two shopping bags filled to the top with books.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN8778.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1919\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN8778-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN8778\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN8778.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN8778-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rest of the afternoon we spent wandering downtown, seeing the usual tourist spots &#8230; Pioneer Square, the waterfront, the beautiful library, the cultural area, etc., etc.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1917\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1917\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN8800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1917\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN8800-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"as we suspected ...\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN8800.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN8800-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">as we suspected &#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1920\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1920\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN8785.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1920\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN8785-1024x770.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Does this statue move?!&quot;\" width=\"604\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN8785.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN8785-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Does this statue move?!&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1915\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1915\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN8793.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1915 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN8793-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN8793\" width=\"604\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN8793.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN8793-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">waterfront cuteness &#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As far as cities go, Portland is great &#8230; but we are all ready to return to country life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is a heaven, I imagine it looks something like Powell&#8217;s City of Books in Portland, Oregon. The world&#8217;s largest independent bookstore is a city block, with four stories. When we arrived we grabbed a map of the store &#8230; and then spent several hours exploring! The four of us each found something irresistible &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/?p=1922\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heaven &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1936,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions\/1936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}