{"id":7576,"date":"2010-04-18T20:47:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T01:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=7576"},"modified":"2010-04-18T20:48:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T01:48:09","slug":"in-the-land-of-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=7576","title":{"rendered":"In the land of dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If ifs were skiffs we&#8217;d all ride for free &#8211; I was thinking about the power of positive thinking and how restorative nature can be. We went to do a family walk on the lakefront after Wolfie&#8217;s ceremony. And we let go of Tin&#8217;s white star balloon into the wind. Lake Ponchartrain is the second largest salt water lake in the United States, I thought it was the largest, but apparently the Great Salt Lake in Utah has that honor. It is the largest lake in Louisiana and actually it&#8217;s not a lake but an estuary connected to the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s too scientific &#8211; it&#8217;s a lake to all of us and one that blurs the lines between sky and water as all fade to blue.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7577\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?attachment_id=7577\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/a7.jpg?fit=450%2C337&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"450,337\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;EX-S880&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1271569448&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;64&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"a\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/a7.jpg?fit=450%2C337&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7577\" title=\"a\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/a7.jpg?resize=450%2C337\" alt=\"a\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/a7.jpg?w=450&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/a7.jpg?resize=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If ifs were skiffs we&#8217;d all ride for free &#8211; I was thinking about the power of positive thinking and how restorative nature can be. We went to do a family walk on the lakefront after Wolfie&#8217;s ceremony. And we let go of Tin&#8217;s white star balloon into the wind. Lake Ponchartrain is the second largest salt water lake in the United States, I thought it was the largest, but apparently the Great Salt Lake&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-7576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-1Yc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7576","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=7576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7579,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7576\/revisions\/7579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}