{"id":9155,"date":"2016-04-08T00:20:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T00:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/?p=9155"},"modified":"2016-12-26T17:26:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T17:26:55","slug":"kentucky-rockhunting-trip-end-of-march-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/?p=9155","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Rockhunting Trip End of March 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Onyx and I drove down to western Kentucky for a machine dig at the Eureka Mine on Thursday March 24th, joined there by a few rockhunting friends from Minneapolis, St Louis County, and then we drove on over to central Kentucky on Saturday afternoon, and hunted in the Danville area as well for a few days. While there we also saw a bit of scenery, everything was in bloom down there also and we had pretty good weather while there too. I`ll include a few of the highlights here but for more of the story, check out my rockhunting blog site at www.jwjrocks.com\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/01-Sunset-Night-Before-My-Trip.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9156\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9156\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/01-Sunset-Night-Before-My-Trip-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"01 Sunset Night Before My Trip\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/01-Sunset-Night-Before-My-Trip-300x237.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/01-Sunset-Night-Before-My-Trip-768x607.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/01-Sunset-Night-Before-My-Trip-1024x809.jpg 1024w, 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