{"id":2704,"date":"2014-02-27T15:27:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T20:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=2704"},"modified":"2018-11-01T08:51:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T12:51:52","slug":"winter-in-fort-myers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/27\/winter-in-fort-myers\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter in Fort Myers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2707\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ft-Myers-004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2707\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ft-Myers-004-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Walkin' the dogs\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ft-Myers-004-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ft-Myers-004-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ft-Myers-004-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ft-Myers-004-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walkin&#8217; the dogs<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I can see why the Red Sox choose to come here for spring training&#8230; the weather is absolutely stunning! It is in the 80&#8217;s most days, and sunny. Yes, it does get chilly occasionally and, yes, it does rain occasionally, but 90% of the time it is just flat-out gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: Sunday, February 16, 2014. We drove to downtown Fort Myers &#8211; about 10 miles away &#8211; to attend a street fair\/classic car show. The weather was perfect, with cloudless skies and a light breeze. We wandered around, saw some nice old cars (and some not-so-old custom ones), had some tasty fair food (including some kettle corn) and just generally enjoyed the weather.<\/p>\n<p>Hard to beat.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile it was snowing in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_2705\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ft-Myers-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2705\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2705\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ft-Myers-001-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Car show\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ft-Myers-001-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ft-Myers-001-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ft-Myers-001-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ft-Myers-001-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Car show<\/p><\/div><div id=\"attachment_6969\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ft-Myers-003-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6969\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6969\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ft-Myers-003-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"River waterfront\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ft-Myers-003-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ft-Myers-003-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ft-Myers-003-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ft-Myers-003-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ft-Myers-003-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">River waterfront<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can see why the Red Sox choose to come here for spring training&#8230; the weather is absolutely stunning! It is in the 80&#8217;s most days, and sunny. Yes, it does get chilly occasionally and, yes, it does rain occasionally, but 90% of the time it is just flat-out gorgeous. Case in point: Sunday, February &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/27\/winter-in-fort-myers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fl","category-places"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-HC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6970,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions\/6970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}