{"id":1975,"date":"2010-03-26T19:58:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T00:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsroundup.com\/wp\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2010-03-26T22:47:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T03:47:05","slug":"high-atop-the-berkshires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=1975","title":{"rendered":"High atop the Berkshires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>well, atop Jiminy Peak:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queenofallmydomains.com\/quiltr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/jiminy3_26.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queenofallmydomains.com\/quiltr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/jiminy3_26-150x112.jpg\" alt=\"The wind turbines at Jiminy\" title=\"jiminy3_26\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1976\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I drove over to North Adams and surrounding parts to enjoy the day, pick up some fabric (you know I needed more!) and I found a Home Depot over there to get the makings for a new design wall. I got turned around (directionally) with a car full of insulation boards, so rather than trying to make a lot of turns in an unfamiliar part of whereever I was, I took the same route home.  No complaints there &#8211; I never tire of seeing those &#8220;hills&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>When I saw the first of these wind turbines I thought it visually detracting.  That first one still sticks out.  The string of them along the ridge aren&#8217;t so bad somehow.<\/p>\n<p>As I drove through Stephentown &#8211; there was a lot full of the blades for the incomplete ones.  Holy cow.  If these pictures make you wonder how big these things are &#8211; the individual blades &#8211; hub to tip are larger than a tractor trailer.  Amazing.  And the blades of the working ones look incredibly too small and narrow <a href=\"http:\/\/jiminypeak.com\/page.php?PageID=1367&#038;PageName=Wind+Turbine+FAQ\" target=\"_blank\">to be efficient<\/a> but up closer &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jiminypeak.com\/accounts\/69\/admin\/data\/03262010092657.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">not so much<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>well, atop Jiminy Peak: I drove over to North Adams and surrounding parts to enjoy the day, pick up some fabric (you know I needed more!) and I found a Home Depot over there to get the makings for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=1975\">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":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27,28],"tags":[527,528],"class_list":["post-1975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-causes","category-in-the-neighborhood","tag-good-causes","tag-in-the-neighborhood"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-vR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1975"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1980,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions\/1980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}