{"id":9830,"date":"2010-11-08T09:35:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T14:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=9830"},"modified":"2010-11-08T17:07:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T22:07:41","slug":"looking-for-perfection-you-find-what-you-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=9830","title":{"rendered":"Looking for perfection you find what you see"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In beach combing, I seek the perfect shell, the one that the turning waves have not crushed or left indistinguishable from its origin. The first time I beach combed with Tatjana she picked up shells that had me scratching my head &#8211; they were undefinable, smooth, pearl-like stones. She loves them because they show that they have been through a lot to get to the shore &#8211; so much the edges have been smoothed to round, the color bleached to opulescent white, and the origins are definitely unknown.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m seeking perfection, she is finding hers.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9831\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?attachment_id=9831\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/a1.jpg?fit=3968%2C2976&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3968,2976\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;uT8000,ST8000&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1289151331&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;64&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0015625&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\/11\/a1.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9831\" title=\"a\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/a1-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"a\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/a1.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/a1.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/a1.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/a1.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In beach combing, I seek the perfect shell, the one that the turning waves have not crushed or left indistinguishable from its origin. The first time I beach combed with Tatjana she picked up shells that had me scratching my head &#8211; they were undefinable, smooth, pearl-like stones. She loves them because they show that they have been through a lot to get to the shore &#8211; so much the edges have been smoothed to&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-9830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-2yy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830","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=9830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9833,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830\/revisions\/9833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}