{"id":5443,"date":"2012-08-29T10:42:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T14:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=5443"},"modified":"2012-08-29T10:42:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T14:42:48","slug":"morning-sun-dusty-trails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/morning-sun-dusty-trails\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Sun, Dusty Trails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dustyshoes.jpg\" alt=\"dustyshoes\" title=\"dustyshoes\" width=\"470\" height=\"351\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dustyshoes.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dustyshoes-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>7.5 mile run on the somewhat desolate Kansas River levy trails.. a place I&#8217;ve mostly avoided because of the paranoid Brooklynite in me who&#8217;s always looking out for lurkers. My biggest goal for the year is to release all fears, and I&#8217;m well on my way. And this morning, I learned that all I was doing by fearing something unknown was forcing myself to miss out on a really great experience.<br \/>\nOn one side: distant farmhouses and machinery, fields of flourishing crops and scorched corn, farm cats, roosters calling..<br \/>\nOn the other side: lush trees lining the river, crickets and cicadas chirping, various birds singing morning songs, leaves slowly falling to the ground.<br \/>\nIn front of me: morning sunlight creating bokeh on my eyelashes one way, company in my own shadow on the way back; every moment ahead.<br \/>\nBehind me: a light end of summer breeze; every moment past.<br \/>\nWith me: my mind and body working together, the feeling of movement, feeling my feet on the ground, thinking about how to translate what I&#8217;m seeing into a paper cutting, enjoying every moment, remembering what really matters and how simple it can be to enjoy it all. <\/p>\n<p>It feels good to be alive and to not fear making the most of it. (Maybe it&#8217;s the runner&#8217;s high that makes me want to write about it all. Either way, it&#8217;s good to put it here to keep myself and maybe somebody else going).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7.5 mile run on the somewhat desolate Kansas River levy trails.. a place I&#8217;ve mostly avoided because of the paranoid Brooklynite in me who&#8217;s always looking out for lurkers. My biggest goal for the year is to release all fears, and I&#8217;m well on my way. And this morning, I learned that all I was [&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-5443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443","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=5443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5446,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443\/revisions\/5446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}