{"id":8684,"date":"2017-02-04T01:29:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T01:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hippy.com\/hip\/reviews\/makanda-illinois\/"},"modified":"2017-02-04T01:29:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T01:29:25","slug":"makanda-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/hippie-havens\/makanda-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"Makanda, Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tIt&#8217;s way out there among hills in a forrest, but once you set foot on the &#8220;sidewalk&#8221; of the town square (which is barely anything) you notice the overall atmosphere of art. The place SCREAMS hippie haven!! It&#8217;s a calm, peaceful town, it&#8217;s creative and close to nature,a favorite for me!! <\/p>\n<p>\nAnd nearby is a great collage town,Carbondale,Il. it&#8217;s big and booming,but if your in the right part of town you run into some groovy stuff. There&#8217;s a wonderous hippie hang out caf\u00e8 with alot of college kids working there who are into the all natural hippie way of life. There&#8217;s local artwork on the walls,alot of food for thought. There&#8217;s a vietnam poet who hangs out in the back dining room of the caf\u00e8 with long hair and a beard,but kind eyes. And the next room toward the back is the &#8216;Babba Shop&#8217; which is very middle eastern,lots of clothes, prayer shawls, philosophy books&#8230;..which i didn&#8217;t really get into. But for that type of hippie&#8230;it&#8217;s prob&#8217;ly heaven. LOL behind that is a vintage clothing shop&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p>\nAlso a great college town is Charleston,Il. There&#8217;s a head shop called absolutely 4th street records (on 4th street) and a bar or something called the rabbit hole. And a shop called the Alice Emporium or something like that.<\/p>\n<p>Views: 40966<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s way out there among hills in a forrest, but once you set foot on the &#8220;sidewalk&#8221; of the town square (which is barely anything) you notice the overall atmosphere of art. The place SCREAMS hippie haven!! It&#8217;s a calm, peaceful town, it&#8217;s creative and close to nature,a favorite for me!! And nearby is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hippie-havens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}