{"id":1359,"date":"2015-02-09T23:10:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T03:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2015-02-09T23:15:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T03:15:05","slug":"a-puddles-eye-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=1359","title":{"rendered":"A Puddle&#8217;s Eye View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Project 365 &#8211; Day 40<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;People only see what they are prepared to see.&#8221;<\/span> <em>~ Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We often confine our thoughts, our vision, our creativity to the familiar.\u00a0 To the concepts we grew up with, or to what we perceive others want us to do or be.\u00a0 When we step away from these and free ourselves of needless worries and wants, we open our minds to see the before-unseen.\u00a0 As the sky cleared of rain this afternoon, puddles looked like obstacles.\u00a0\u00a0 Walk closer and look harder &#8211; beautiful shapes and reflections appear, like the trees in this small pool.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1360\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/150209_012.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1360\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1360\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/150209_012-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"Pool of Trees\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/150209_012-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/150209_012-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/150209_012.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pool of Trees<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fuji X100s, 23mm f\/2.0, 1\/100 sec @ f\/5.6, ISO1000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project 365 &#8211; Day 40 &#8220;People only see what they are prepared to see.&#8221; ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson We often confine our thoughts, our vision, our creativity to the familiar.\u00a0 To the concepts we grew up with, or to what we perceive others want us to do or be.\u00a0 When we step away from these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,38,39,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}