{"id":5992,"date":"2012-11-15T17:53:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T21:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=5992"},"modified":"2012-11-15T17:53:46","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T21:53:46","slug":"nature-is-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/nature-is-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature is Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/shoes111512.jpg\" alt=\"shoes111512\" title=\"shoes111512\" width=\"470\" height=\"470\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/shoes111512.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/shoes111512-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/shoes111512-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNature is not a place to visit. It is home.\u201d<br \/>\n-Gary Snyder<\/p>\n<p>I had to take a little break earlier and get outside.. Nothing like watching some leaves fall from a tree or squirrel hopping through those leaves to refresh my mind. (I don&#8217;t need much to be entertained, to say the least). I read a bit of Gary Snyder this morning and watched some documentary tidbits about him while I was doing some work. Looking forward to exploring his work more in depth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home. The sum of a field&#8217;s forces [become] what we call very loosely the &#8216;spirit of the place.&#8217; To know the spirit of a place is to realize that you are a part of a part and that the whole is made of parts, each of which is a whole. You start with the part you are whole in.\u201d -Gary Snyder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNature is not a place to visit. It is home.\u201d -Gary Snyder I had to take a little break earlier and get outside.. Nothing like watching some leaves fall from a tree or squirrel hopping through those leaves to refresh my mind. (I don&#8217;t need much to be entertained, to say the least). I read [&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-5992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992","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=5992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5995,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions\/5995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}