{"id":5117,"date":"2012-07-25T21:36:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T01:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=5117"},"modified":"2012-07-25T21:36:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T01:36:23","slug":"today-presently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/today-presently\/","title":{"rendered":"Today, presently.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/twothistles.jpg\" alt=\"twothistles\" title=\"twothistles\" width=\"470\" height=\"470\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/twothistles.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/twothistles-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/twothistles-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I started my day with tea on my deck with my neighborhood cat, Fritz. I spent the rest of the day printing and packing up orders that came in while I was in Colorado. Now, I&#8217;m sitting on my couch listening to an orchestra of crickets and night critters out my windows and trying to stay cool while I flip through some new books (6 to be exact, and 2 by Thomas Merton) that I ordered.. I only have like 100+ other books on my shelves that I still need to read. I can&#8217;t help myself..<\/p>\n<p>\n<i>\u201cYou do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.\u201d -Thomas Merton<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Til next time..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started my day with tea on my deck with my neighborhood cat, Fritz. I spent the rest of the day printing and packing up orders that came in while I was in Colorado. Now, I&#8217;m sitting on my couch listening to an orchestra of crickets and night critters out my windows and trying to [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117","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=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5120,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions\/5120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}