{"id":2096,"date":"2018-06-22T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2018-06-22T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T13:16:00","slug":"washingtons-boyhood-homes-share-little-common-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=2096","title":{"rendered":"Washington&#8217;s boyhood homes share little common ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2097\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2097\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2097\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/101-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/101-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/101-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/101-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/101-1200x898.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Replica House at the Ferry Farm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"1\">Many Americans are aware that George Washington lived at Mount Vernon, near Alexandria, Va., a historic site where they can walk in the footsteps of our nation\u2019s foremost founding father, Revolutionary War hero and first president.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"2\">What\u2019s less well-known is that Washington grew up 40 miles south of there, at what is now called Ferry Farm, near Fredericksburg, and the site \u2014 the setting for such mythical events as chopping down his father\u2019s cherry tree and throwing a coin across a river \u2014 can be visited as well. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/travel\/two-of-george-washingtons-homes-40-miles-apart-offer-insights-into-the-first-president\/2018\/06\/20\/3002e376-7302-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html?utm_term=.90d1e044714f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Both locations provide a fascinating window into Washington\u2019s life.<\/a> And this year, both have something new to offer visitors.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/301.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2098\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/301-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/301-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/301-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/301-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/301-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><em>Mount Vernon<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/travel\/two-of-george-washingtons-homes-40-miles-apart-offer-insights-into-the-first-president\/2018\/06\/20\/3002e376-7302-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html?utm_term=.90d1e044714f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/travel\/two-of-george-washingtons-homes-40-miles-apart-offer-insights-into-the-first-president\/2018\/06\/20\/3002e376-7302-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html?utm_term=.90d1e044714f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Washington Post<\/em>, June 21, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Americans are aware that George Washington lived at Mount Vernon, near Alexandria, Va., a historic site where they can walk in the footsteps of our nation\u2019s foremost founding father, Revolutionary War hero and first president. What\u2019s less well-known is that Washington grew up 40 miles south of there, at what is now called Ferry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=2096\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Washington&#8217;s boyhood homes share little common ground&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[59,124,10,178,111],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-events","tag-fairfax-county","tag-history","tag-northern-virginia","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2099,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions\/2099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}