{"id":2255,"date":"2019-04-05T13:43:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T13:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=2255"},"modified":"2019-04-05T13:45:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T13:45:33","slug":"blackburn-inn-gives-new-life-to-a-site-with-a-dark-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=2255","title":{"rendered":"Blackburn Inn gives new life to a site with a dark past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/101-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/101-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/101-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/101-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/101-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A weekend stay last month at the Blackburn Inn in Staunton, Va., gave my wife Juli and me an appreciation for a freedom we usually take for granted \u2014 the ability to come and go as we please. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After checking in, we were free to leave the premises to stroll around Staunton\u2019s bustling downtown and enjoy an hour of virtuoso performances at a Bach festival. Later, after dinner in the hotel\u2019s bistro, we returned downtown to enjoy some local brews. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This freedom to leave the grounds was something that thousands of people who had once inhabited the historic hotel and neighboring buildings did not enjoy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a aria-label=\"Read more... (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/travel\/in-the-shenandoah-valley-blackburn-inn-gives-new-life-to-a-site-with-a-dark-past\/2019\/04\/04\/2457fdb4-5492-11e9-814f-e2f46684196e_story.html?utm_term=.b7890390c7ad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A weekend stay last month at the Blackburn Inn in Staunton, Va., gave my wife Juli and me an appreciation for a freedom we usually take for granted \u2014 the ability to come and go as we please. After checking in, we were free to leave the premises to stroll around Staunton\u2019s bustling downtown and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=2255\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blackburn Inn gives new life to a site with a dark past&#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":[111,109],"class_list":["post-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-travel","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255","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=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2259,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions\/2259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}