{"id":18231,"date":"2013-04-22T21:22:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T02:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=18231"},"modified":"2013-04-22T21:22:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T02:22:10","slug":"follow-your-heart-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=18231","title":{"rendered":"Follow your heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was ensconced with my computer all morning and by noon was ready to bolt, so I did. I walked towards the bayou and right at the banks was a great blue heron taking flight across the water. It was a show stopper. I just said to myself, this is where my heart belongs &#8211; this bird just told me. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2008_wetlands_heron.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18232\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?attachment_id=18232\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2008_wetlands_heron.jpg?fit=350%2C250\" data-orig-size=\"350,250\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"2008_wetlands_heron\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2008_wetlands_heron.jpg?fit=350%2C250\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2008_wetlands_heron.jpg?resize=350%2C250\" alt=\"2008_wetlands_heron\" width=\"350\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2008_wetlands_heron.jpg?w=350 350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2008_wetlands_heron.jpg?resize=300%2C214 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I strolled the banks of the bayou and headed down to see friends. He&#8217;s been through hell and back, on a path of destruction that was taking down his relationship, his job, and even his front steps. But he&#8217;s on the mend. And we talked about what that felt like. <\/p>\n<p>Good. <em>Follow your heart and there you&#8217;ll find happiness.<\/em> I appropriated that fortune for myself. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was ensconced with my computer all morning and by noon was ready to bolt, so I did. I walked towards the bayou and right at the banks was a great blue heron taking flight across the water. It was a show stopper. I just said to myself, this is where my heart belongs &#8211; this bird just told me. Then I strolled the banks of the bayou and headed down to see friends. He&#8217;s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-4K3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18233,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18231\/revisions\/18233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}