{"id":150296,"date":"2026-07-08T22:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T02:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/?p=150296"},"modified":"2026-07-08T22:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T02:38:23","slug":"solace-of-the-valley-by-joe-scrizzi-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/?p=150296","title":{"rendered":"Solace of the Valley | By: Joe Scrizzi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photography by: Joe Scrizzi<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Solace of the Valley<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bench-woods.jpg?ssl=1\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-150298 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bench-woods.jpg?resize=474%2C632&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bench-woods.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bench-woods.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bench-woods.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bench-woods.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;The most beautiful discoveries along your path often happen when you sit down and observe.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0 ~ Korie Urban<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p>Location:\u00a0Monocacy Creek Nature Trail\u00a0Bethlehem PA.<br \/>\n(downstream from Illick&#8217;s Mill Rd).<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photography by: Joe Scrizzi Solace of the Valley &#8220;The most beautiful discoveries along your path often happen when you sit down and observe.&#8221; \u00a0 ~ Korie Urban Location:\u00a0Monocacy Creek Nature Trail\u00a0Bethlehem PA. (downstream from Illick&#8217;s Mill Rd). &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\r\n\r\n{excerpt}\r\n\r\n{url}","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},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[69,2360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-joe-scrizzi"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sotv-bench.jpg?fit=672%2C372&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150299,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150296\/revisions\/150299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/150297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}