{"id":2678,"date":"2018-07-18T13:28:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T17:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/?p=2678"},"modified":"2018-08-05T13:40:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T17:40:50","slug":"cara-and-i-discover-winston-salem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2018\/cara-and-i-discover-winston-salem\/","title":{"rendered":"Cara and I discover Winston-Salem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both before and after <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/lung-drama-tension-release\/\">my good news<\/a>, Cara and I had a great time discovering Winston-Salem.\u00a0 We stayed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookstowninn.com\/\">the Historic Brookstone Inn<\/a>, originally built in 1837 and converted into a beautiful set of suites full of character, tons of ancient brick and massive lumber and generously sized &#8211; we loved it.\u00a0 It has a bit of a brick campus, lots of nooks and crannies and pretty much all ours, with the exception of the resident cat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both before and after my good news, Cara and I had a great time discovering Winston-Salem.\u00a0 We stayed at the Historic Brookstone Inn, originally built in 1837 and converted into a beautiful set of suites full of character, tons of ancient brick and massive lumber and generously sized &#8211; we loved it.\u00a0 It has a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2018\/cara-and-i-discover-winston-salem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cara and I discover Winston-Salem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-Hc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":276,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2008\/one-year-cancer-free\/","url_meta":{"origin":2678,"position":0},"title":"One Year Cancer Free","author":"m","date":"March 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I had my second semi-annual CT scan check yesterday. 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