{"id":5965,"date":"2012-11-11T16:14:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T20:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=5965"},"modified":"2012-11-11T16:17:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T20:17:19","slug":"sunday-ramble-less-is-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/sunday-ramble-less-is-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Ramble: Less is More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/jellyfish.jpg\" alt=\"jellyfish\" title=\"jellyfish\" width=\"470\" height=\"351\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/jellyfish.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/jellyfish-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I went to the Sea Life Aquarium in Kansas City yesterday and had trouble prying myself away from the jellyfish. So amazing and simple and beautiful (like all of nature &#8212; I think it was their luminescence that really pulled me in).<\/p>\n<p>I stayed the night at my brother&#8217;s house and found myself awake in the dark hours before dawn (as usual..) flipping through infomercials on tv. I very rarely watch tv and I was reminded why.. so many messages telling me what I need or how I should look or ideas that I should live with&#8230; I hit the road shortly after dawn and have been purging my house since. The infomercials had the opposite effect on me, forcing me to think about how much I have that I don&#8217;t need. The jellyfish reminded me how important it is to remain simple and transparent. Less really is more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the Sea Life Aquarium in Kansas City yesterday and had trouble prying myself away from the jellyfish. So amazing and simple and beautiful (like all of nature &#8212; I think it was their luminescence that really pulled me in). I stayed the night at my brother&#8217;s house and found myself awake in [&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-5965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965","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=5965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5969,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions\/5969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}