{"id":809,"date":"2009-11-11T22:04:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T03:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/?p=809"},"modified":"2009-11-11T22:04:21","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T03:04:21","slug":"new-bern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/?p=809","title":{"rendered":"New Bern"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_810\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-810\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-810\" href=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/?attachment_id=810\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-810\" title=\"DSC03563\" src=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC03563-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"M and one of Bern's bears.\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC03563-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC03563-685x1024.jpg 685w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M and one of Bern&#39;s bears.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We spent a little time exploring &#8220;old&#8221; New Bern. We found out that it is a lot nicer than &#8220;new&#8221; New Bern. Bern means bear and there are many painted bears around downtown. There are also churches with loud bells that ring more often than every hour.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_811\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-811\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-811\" href=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/?attachment_id=811\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-811\" title=\"DSC03549\" src=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC03549-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Pepsi Cola was invented here.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC03549-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC03549-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pepsi Cola was invented here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Morgane and I met two nice ladies whose job it was to paint the fire hydrant. They were painting it to look like a woman. We watched as they asked someone to sketch in the eyes for them.<\/p>\n<p>People were very friendly as they seem to be everywhere in the south. Ghis finally got our phones working so if you want our phone numbers, you&#8217;ll have to write us.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_812\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-812\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-812\" href=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/?attachment_id=812\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-812\" title=\"DSC03564\" src=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC03564-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"Peppers growing outside in November.\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC03564-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC03564-1024x640.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peppers growing outside in November.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We briefly visited the closest town and it seems there is a lot of interesting stuff to see. There is a biodiesel plant near here and a lot of things related to the sustainable movement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_813\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-813\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-813\" href=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/?attachment_id=813\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-813\" title=\"DSC03551\" src=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC03551-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"This gravestone has my dad's name on it. He published the first book in North Carolina (and did a ton of other stuff, according to this list).\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC03551-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC03551-685x1024.jpg 685w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-813\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This gravestone has my dad&#39;s name on it. He published the first book in North Carolina (and did a ton of other stuff, according to this list).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent a little time exploring &#8220;old&#8221; New Bern. We found out that it is a lot nicer than &#8220;new&#8221; New Bern. Bern means bear and there are many painted bears around downtown. There are also churches with loud bells that ring more often than every hour. Morgane and I met two nice ladies whose &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/?p=809\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Bern&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}