{"id":2440,"date":"2012-03-29T15:17:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T19:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdf\/2012\/03\/29\/spring-in-dc-area-capitol-hill\/"},"modified":"2012-03-29T15:17:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T19:17:12","slug":"spring-in-dc-area-capitol-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdf\/2012\/03\/29\/spring-in-dc-area-capitol-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring in the DC Area &#8211; Capitol Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We have a Special Guest Blogger <\/em><em>who has written a series of posts highlighting places to visit during spring in DC.<\/em><em> Sara is a longtime host mom in our cluster.<br \/>\nPost 2 of a 5 part series. To read all the posts click <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdf\/tag\/spring-in-dc-area\/\">HERE<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Capitol Hill <\/strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2439\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/2306106620_893951e1b1_n.jpg\" alt=\"2306106620_893951e1b1_n\" width=\"230\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/2306106620_893951e1b1_n.jpg 255w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/2306106620_893951e1b1_n-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/>Walking around the Capitol Hill will also give you a taste of what nature has to offer. In this neighborhood behind the Capitol and away from the Mall, the house plots are small, and many homes plant to maximize the beauty of their small gardens. If you&#8217;ve not been to Eastern Market:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easternmarket-dc.org\/default.asp?ContentID=1\">http:\/\/www.easternmarket-dc.org\/default.asp?ContentID=1<\/a> on a Saturday morning when the Farmer&#8217;s Market and arts &amp; crafts vendors display their goods, this is a good season for it. I highly recommend Market Lunch, although lines can be really long. While the softshell crabs are not for the squeamish (yes, you can really eat the entire crab), they are delicious. Locals won&#8217;t eat oysters in a month that does not have an &#8220;r&#8221; in it, so there&#8217;s one month left until the long summer without them. For meat lovers, there is the Carolina style pulled pork (vinegary).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888\">Photo: Flick rjs1322<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a Special Guest Blogger who has written a series of posts highlighting places to visit during spring in DC. Sara is a longtime host mom in our cluster. Post 2 of a 5 part series. To read all the posts click <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdf\/tag\/spring-in-dc-area\/\">HERE<\/a>. Capitol Hill Walking around the Capitol Hill will also give  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdf\/2012\/03\/29\/spring-in-dc-area-capitol-hill\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[161,273,317,845,942],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-capitol-hill","tag-dc","tag-eastern-market","tag-spring-in-dc-area","tag-washington"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spring in the DC Area - Capitol Hill - Au Pair Chatter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spring in the DC Area - Capitol Hill - Au Pair Chatter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We have a Special Guest Blogger who has written a series of posts highlighting places to visit during spring in DC. 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