{"id":737,"date":"2021-07-08T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/?p=737"},"modified":"2021-07-13T15:54:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T15:54:33","slug":"seeattle-on-a-good-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"Seeattle On A Good Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>That&#8217;s no spelling error. Before the pandemic, I spent a Sunday in the Seattle area and came away impressed by the city&#8217;s attractions, scenery and pedestrian-friendly attitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It began with a ferry trip to the Outlook Inn and New Leaf Cafe on Orcas Island.  It was early spring and wet but the sun did come out for a day or two and it was spectacular. More on that in another post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The iconic Space Needle is a spectacular attraction offering incredible views of the city and Puget Sound. It&#8217;s not your mama&#8217;s Space Needle either. It recently underwent a $100 million facelift to keep the almost 60-year-old needle in the sky as youthful and attractive as ever.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>But what really blew me away was just steps away at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chihulygardenandglass.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chihuly Garden and Glass House<\/a> followed by a delicious lunch at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorshellfishfarms.com\/locations\/category\/all-locations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Shellfish<\/a>.&nbsp; Check out the photos.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Seattle, Chihuly, Orcas\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/worldsbestwalks\/albums\/72157706422248921\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7854\/47561440001_c97f1662a5_z.jpg\" alt=\"Seattle, Chihuly, Orcas\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s no spelling error. Before the pandemic, I spent a Sunday in the Seattle area and came away impressed by the city&#8217;s attractions, scenery and pedestrian-friendly attitude. It began with a ferry trip to the Outlook Inn and New Leaf &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/?p=737\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}