{"id":15264,"date":"2014-06-23T04:43:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T10:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=15264"},"modified":"2016-12-07T12:09:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T19:09:25","slug":"a-montana-mountain-home-i-could-live-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/06\/23\/a-montana-mountain-home-i-could-live-there\/","title":{"rendered":"A Montana Mountain Home – I could live there"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Grand<\/a>Grand view of a Montana Mountain Home<\/span><\/p>\n

If I could pick a place to escape the craziness of modern life this place in the Centennial Valley of Montana\u00a0would be at the top of my list. This cell phone image shows the grand view.<\/p>\n

\"I<\/a>I could live there<\/span><\/p>\n

And this one shows the homestead close up, zoomed in with my 18-200mm VR lens. I’d love to walk right into this scene today. Especially today.<\/p>\n

Wouldn’t it be peaceful? I could live there.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I could pick a place to escape the craziness of modern life this place in the Centennial Valley of Montana would be at the top of my list. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1513,223,12],"tags":[4101,4380,4069,4035],"class_list":["post-15264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beaverhead-county-montana","category-centennial-valley","category-montana","tag-clouds","tag-homestead","tag-mountains","tag-nature-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/red-rock-lakes-mountain-home-mia-mcpherson-0166.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-3Yc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14392,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/02\/19\/the-centennial-valley-of-montana-beckons-to-me\/","url_meta":{"origin":15264,"position":0},"title":"The Centennial Valley of Montana beckons to me","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"February 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The Centennial Valley says \"home\" to me with the expansive views it offers of not only the valley but the Centennial Mountains and the Lower Lake and beyond. 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