{"id":420,"date":"2011-10-05T05:51:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T12:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/?p=420"},"modified":"2011-10-05T05:56:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T12:56:03","slug":"portsmouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"Portsmouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a rainy, dreary evening in Portsmouth, N.H. \u00c2\u00a0The fog and mist reminded one of a london pea soup. \u00c2\u00a0Walking across the Memorial Bridge, closed now to traffic, being readied for demolition,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"memorial bridge portsmouth.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/memorial-bridge-portsmouth.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Memorial bridge portsmouth\" width=\"600\" height=\"455\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I caught sight of this dreary boathouse on the Kittery, ME side of the river.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"kittery boathouse bw.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/kittery-boathouse-bw.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Kittery boathouse bw\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was that kind of an evening. \u00c2\u00a0Being however a happy soul, I saw the boat house as bright, beautiful, how it might have appeared on a better evening.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"portsmouth boathouse.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/portsmouth-boathouse.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Portsmouth boathouse\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a fine lobster dinner at Warren&#8217;s in Kittery, ME, we walked back across the bridge and found ourselves in the middle of a celebration of the bridge, and one of the best firework shows I&#8217;ve seen, made even better by the pea soup.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"portsmouth fireworks 1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/portsmouth-fireworks-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Portsmouth fireworks 1\" width=\"397\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Waiting for the bus, I became entranced by this church steeple in the fog.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"portsmouth steeple.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/portsmouth-steeple.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Portsmouth steeple\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Portsmouth is a nice little city, and I recommend it as a place to visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a rainy, dreary evening in Portsmouth, N.H. \u00c2\u00a0The fog and mist reminded one of a london pea soup. \u00c2\u00a0Walking across the Memorial Bridge, closed now to traffic, being readied for demolition, I caught sight of this dreary boathouse &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/?p=420\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}