{"id":2674,"date":"2021-12-28T13:14:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T18:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2021-12-28T13:28:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T18:28:13","slug":"the-quest-to-find-a-warm-and-welcoming-hearth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/28\/the-quest-to-find-a-warm-and-welcoming-hearth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Quest to Find a Warm and Welcoming Hearth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of my favorite things that bring me happiness and joy is a fireplace, not an electric one or even one on the TV screen but a real wood-burning fireplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my favorite things, when we visit the Biltmore, is sitting by the fireplace in the lobby or the beautiful fireplace in the Dining Room. Our first apartment when we were married in 2001 actually had a wood-burning fireplace which in Florida is something rare indeed and it was one of the reasons why we picked that apartment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We take any chance we can to enjoy a nice fireplace because living in Florida the best we can manage is an electric one. One of our many dreams is to one day have a second home in the Blue Ridge mountains and I hope that home will have a beautiful wood-burning fireplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It always makes me sad whenever I see people blocking off fireplaces, especially if they are old ones or removing them altogether. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My dream fireplace would be a stone fireplace with a mantle made of old rustic wood, I would not do anything tacky like mount a large TV or an oversized gilded mirror over it but maybe an antique oil patining or an old world map, something that would definitely give it an old-world feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I want to share some of my favorite Fireplaces that we have visited over the years including the one from our first apartment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_5503.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2684\" data-link=\"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/?attachment_id=2684\" class=\"wp-image-2684\"\/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">The Library Lounge at The Inn at the Biltmore Estate<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_2375.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2676\" data-link=\"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/?attachment_id=2676\" class=\"wp-image-2676\"\/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">The Dining Room in The Inn at the Biltmore Estate<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_0190-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2683\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_0190-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/?attachment_id=2683\" class=\"wp-image-2683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_0190-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_0190-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_0190-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_0190-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_0190-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">At a B&amp;B That we stayed at in Washington, DC<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"670\" src=\"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ps_2012_03_20___16_17_16-1024x670.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2682\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ps_2012_03_20___16_17_16.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/?attachment_id=2682\" class=\"wp-image-2682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ps_2012_03_20___16_17_16-1024x670.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ps_2012_03_20___16_17_16-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ps_2012_03_20___16_17_16-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ps_2012_03_20___16_17_16-1536x1005.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ps_2012_03_20___16_17_16-2048x1340.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Our First Apartment and our first cat<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_5545.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2681\" data-link=\"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/?attachment_id=2681\" class=\"wp-image-2681\"\/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Biltmore House<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_5546.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2680\" data-link=\"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/?attachment_id=2680\" class=\"wp-image-2680\"\/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\"> Biltmore House <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_5831.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2679\" data-link=\"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/?attachment_id=2679\" class=\"wp-image-2679\"\/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">The Tavern at the Old Pink House in Savannah, GA<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_2648.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2678\" data-link=\"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/?attachment_id=2678\" class=\"wp-image-2678\"\/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\"> Biltmore House <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_2642.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2677\" data-link=\"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/?attachment_id=2677\" class=\"wp-image-2677\"\/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\"> Biltmore House 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One of my favorite things, when we visit the Biltmore, is sitting by the fireplace in the lobby or the beautiful fireplace in the Dining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[192,193,194,23,169,3,24,4,10,26,11,27,12,28,13,29,14,30,15,31,16,33,18,19,20,22],"class_list":["post-2674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bunny-health","tag-quest","tag-call-to-adventure","tag-heros-journal-2","tag-self-care","tag-bucketlist","tag-happiness","tag-happy-place","tag-happy","tag-love","tag-sadness","tag-positive","tag-spiritual","tag-positivity","tag-personal-demon","tag-motivation","tag-blessings","tag-life","tag-appreciation","tag-self-love","tag-patience","tag-positive-thinking","tag-friends","tag-depression","tag-anxiety","tag-positive-thoughts","tag-mental-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2686,"href":"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions\/2686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happybunnytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}