{"id":2042,"date":"2012-03-26T19:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=2042"},"modified":"2012-03-26T11:17:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T15:17:14","slug":"quarries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/03\/26\/quarries\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2043\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2043\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/03\/26\/quarries\/rock-of-ages-7\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2043\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2043\" title=\"Rock-of-Ages-7\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/03\/Rock-of-Ages-7-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/03\/Rock-of-Ages-7-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/03\/Rock-of-Ages-7.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph courtesy Howard Greenberg &amp; Bryce Wolkowitz, New York \/ Nicholas Metivier, Toronto, via Salon.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Quarries are a fascinating part of Vermont&#8217;s landscape and relics of the state&#8217;s industrial past.<\/p>\n<p>Travel towards Rutland and Manchester and you&#8217;ll see entire towns built on marble and slate industries. In the late 19th century, Barre, Vermont was the granite capital of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Now a lot of abandoned Vermont quarries function as community swimming holes.\u00a0There&#8217;s even a quarry in West Rutland that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carvingstudio.org\/home\/home.asp\">Carving Studio and Sculpture Center<\/a> has turned into a sculpture garden. It&#8217;s amazing, all these big marble sculptures against massive carved out rock and remnants of industry.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something about quarries that&#8217;s palatial and grand. Their \u00a0beauty \u00a0is testament to the force of both human innovation and the earth&#8217;s geology.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/03\/24\/vermonts_inverted_skyscrapers_and_their_architects\/slide_show\/\">this slideshow<\/a> for some stunning pictures of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/03\/24\/vermonts_inverted_skyscrapers_and_their_architects\/\">Vermont&#8217;s quarries<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quarries are a fascinating part of Vermont&#8217;s landscape and relics of the state&#8217;s industrial past.<br \/>\nTravel [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}