{"id":4063,"date":"2012-03-05T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T04:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=4063"},"modified":"2012-03-05T00:01:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T04:01:02","slug":"thoughts-from-the-roadside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/thoughts-from-the-roadside\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts from the Roadside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/roads2.jpg\" alt=\"roads2\" title=\"roads2\" width=\"470\" height=\"470\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/roads2.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/roads2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/roads2-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/roads3.jpg\" alt=\"roads3\" title=\"roads3\" width=\"470\" height=\"313\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/roads3.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/roads3-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/roads1.jpg\" alt=\"roads1\" title=\"roads1\" width=\"470\" height=\"470\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/roads1.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/roads1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/roads1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Rural Atchison, KS, roadside weeds &#038; wildflowers, October, 2009.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Just Thinking<\/b><br \/>by Kansas poet William Stafford<\/p>\n<p>\nGot up on a cool morning. Leaned out a window.<br \/>\nNo cloud, no wind. Air that flowers held<br \/>\nfor awhile. Some dove somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Been on probation most of my life. And<br \/>\nthe rest of my life been condemned. So these moments<br \/>\ncount for a lot&#8211;peace, you know.<\/p>\n<p>Let the bucket of memory down into the well,<br \/>\nbring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one<br \/>\nstirring, no plans. Just being there.<\/p>\n<p>This is what the whole thing is about. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rural Atchison, KS, roadside weeds &#038; wildflowers, October, 2009. Just Thinkingby Kansas poet William Stafford Got up on a cool morning. Leaned out a window. No cloud, no wind. Air that flowers held for awhile. Some dove somewhere. Been on probation most of my life. And the rest of my life been condemned. So these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4068,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063\/revisions\/4068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}