{"id":1107,"date":"2018-01-13T16:53:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T16:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/?page_id=1107"},"modified":"2018-01-13T16:53:17","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T16:53:17","slug":"the-tree","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/the-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tree breaks our line of sight so gracefully, does it not?<\/p>\n<p>What would we see if it were not there, an infinity of nothingness?,<\/p>\n<p>perhaps a brick wall, ha,ha.<\/p>\n<p>I have a favorite tree I gaze upon almost daily, I watch it grow,<\/p>\n<p>I let it grow.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, one day I perceived a female face, three quarter profile,<\/p>\n<p>at a point where the first branch having started at five feet up<\/p>\n<p>branched itself at about seven feet up, both branches close in<\/p>\n<p>to the tree,[kind of like us]. By the way, I&#8217;m not Catholic, ha,ha!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, light and shadow play their part, as the artist in all of us knows.<\/p>\n<p>However, since the storm, she&#8217;s gone. But as I still seek her<\/p>\n<p>the thought comes to mind, that we all have a nook or cranny<\/p>\n<p>where we go, to see what perhaps only we can see,<\/p>\n<p>to think what perhaps only we can think.<\/p>\n<p>Islander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tree breaks our line of sight so gracefully, does it not? What would we see if it were not there, an infinity of nothingness?, perhaps a brick wall, ha,ha. I have a favorite tree I gaze upon almost daily, I watch it grow, I let it grow. Anyway, one day I perceived a female &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/the-tree\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Tree&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1107","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1107\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}