{"id":662,"date":"2013-10-18T23:01:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T03:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/?p=662"},"modified":"2013-10-21T00:23:16","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T04:23:16","slug":"the-northern-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"The northern light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the brisk chill of early evening in October, on the 45th parallel, perspective on life seems to find you. When it does, that is a good place to sit and find your center with loved ones. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wpid-IMAG0129_1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMAG0129_1.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wpid-IMAG0129_1.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>There is a certain calmness that grows from the Ground here. It is the kind of place where you can absorb a lifetime of wisdom from studying a single droplet of rain on a piece of bark.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wpid-IMAG0137.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMAG0137.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wpid-IMAG0137.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>It seems to swell with all of the gifts of life and then happily takes a plunge on the journey toward the unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Then, of course, there is the cool, northwestern wind. It penetrates your body in a way that is both invigorating and uncomfortable&#8230; always helping you to remember the massive ridges and valleys of this tidal world and reminding you to be prepared for both.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wpid-wp-1382202050868.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"wp-1382202050868.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wpid-wp-1382202050868.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Thank you northern Michigan&#8230; I certainly do love you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the brisk chill of early evening in October, on the 45th parallel, perspective on life seems to find you. When it does, that is a good place to sit and find your center with loved ones. There is a certain calmness that grows from the Ground here. It is the kind of place where you can absorb a lifetime&#8230;<span class=\"path-read-more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/?p=662\" title=\"The northern light\">  Read more &rarr; <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-michigan","category-trail","category-traverse-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}