{"id":305,"date":"2022-12-25T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/25\/gateway-town-farmers-market\/"},"modified":"2022-12-25T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T07:30:00","slug":"gateway-town-farmers-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/25\/gateway-town-farmers-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Gateway Town Farmers Market. Tomatoes at 7,000 Feet."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We staged the RV near Cortez, Colorado, for Mesa Verde\u2014cliff dwellings by day, camp chairs by night. On Saturday I found a farmers market in the parking lot of a community center that looked unpromising and smelled like heaven: roasted chiles, honey, tomatoes that somehow still tasted like August at altitude.<\/p>\n<p>I bought too much the way I once did in Florence near the Arno, except now I had a refrigerator that hums like a contented cat. I made pasta in the RV galley\u2014tiny kitchen, full joy\u2014and shared with the couple camped next to us who were biking the region and living on energy bars until I intervened.<\/p>\n<p>Gateway towns are travel secrets. National parks get the glory. The market two miles away gets the tomatoes that make your post-hike meal feel like a party.<\/p>\n<p>Ask at the visitor center where locals buy food. Skip the gift shop jerky unless you truly love jerky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outside Mesa Verde, a Saturday market that beats any airport terminal food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-parks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}