{"id":16095,"date":"2012-06-14T09:06:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T14:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=16095"},"modified":"2012-06-14T09:06:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T14:06:05","slug":"ive-been-to-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=16095","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve been to the desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking through City Park this morning with the dogs and thinking about the park, and thinking about the plein aire painters who have vanished with the breeze. I wish I had other talents &#8211; to sing, to paint, to sculpt. But I don&#8217;t. I sincerely don&#8217;t. I&#8217;m not sure I could even do calligraphy because I have a shaky hand and I move in such fast motion that pauses are challenging. I guess that is why writing works for me &#8211; I can write fast and furiously when I need to. <\/p>\n<p>I took a brief moment to pause this morning and check out other people&#8217;s handiwork and came across a <a href=\"http:\/\/muddlavoie.com\/blog\/drawings\/horse-with-no-name\/\" target=\"_blank\">drawing of a horse<\/a> that I love. We are fond of horses in this house, even if the elephant is my spirit animal. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of elephants, I&#8217;ve been unable to support the elephants I was supporting and just today received an email newsletter from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elephantsanctuary.org\/default2.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Riddle&#8217;s<\/a>. They have internships available. Oh to be young, if only to be an intern. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking through City Park this morning with the dogs and thinking about the park, and thinking about the plein aire painters who have vanished with the breeze. I wish I had other talents &#8211; to sing, to paint, to sculpt. But I don&#8217;t. I sincerely don&#8217;t. I&#8217;m not sure I could even do calligraphy because I have a shaky hand and I move in such fast motion that pauses are challenging. I guess&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-16095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-4bB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16096,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16095\/revisions\/16096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}