{"id":5479,"date":"2017-01-11T13:45:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T18:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=5479"},"modified":"2017-01-11T13:45:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T18:45:33","slug":"highway-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2017\/01\/11\/highway-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<figure id=\"attachment_5480\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5480\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2017\/01\/Upper-Penninsula-Straits.jpg\" alt=\"Upper Peninsula straits. Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Kinsey. \" width=\"800\" height=\"484\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2017\/01\/Upper-Penninsula-Straits.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2017\/01\/Upper-Penninsula-Straits-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2017\/01\/Upper-Penninsula-Straits-768x465.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2017\/01\/Upper-Penninsula-Straits-560x339.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Upper Peninsula straits. Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Kinsey.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nBy Elizabeth Kinsey<\/p>\n<p>I would have to say that my favorite stretch of highway in Michigan is Highway 2 east of St Ignac in the Upper Peninsula, just over the Mackinac Bridge. There are scenic overlooks of the bridge. It\u2019s a long highway, miles where one can get off the road and relax on the beach and in the water. My bladder is over 60, so I can\u2019t stay there as long as I\u2019d like since there are no bathrooms along this stretch of lake, but it\u2019s just so beautiful and clean. There\u2019s such a luxury in the view and the cold clean water. I can\u2019t say enough about this stretch of Michigan!  Oh, and you haven\u2019t REALLY experienced the Upper Peninsula of Michigan unless you\u2019ve enjoyed a hot pasty, meaty hot pockets that miners used to tuck in their shirts to keep themselves warm and for lunch deep in the mines later. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lehtospasties.com\/\">Lehto\u2019s Pasties<\/a> is our favorite on Hwy. 2 just a few miles east of St. Ignac. It\u2019s lunch-to-go, find an overlook and&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.PERFECTION!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Elizabeth Kinsey I would have to say that my favorite stretch of highway in Michigan is Highway 2 east of St Ignac in the Upper Peninsula, just over the Mackinac Bridge. There are scenic overlooks of the bridge. It\u2019s a long highway, miles where one can get off the road and relax on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[77,248,524,561,876,1096,1179],"class_list":["post-5479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-annual-conference","tag-cobac17","tag-grand-rapids","tag-highway-2","tag-pasties","tag-st-ignac","tag-upper-peninsula"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}