{"id":182,"date":"2010-01-26T09:31:19","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T09:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nanavati.eu\/weblog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2010-01-26T09:31:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T09:31:19","slug":"trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/26\/trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How well I remember as a child climbing trees. Always scared the higher I climbed but always looking at the next large bough and wondering what it would feel like to sit on it and how far I would be able to see. Then gripping it tightly as if my life depended upon it when a breeze hit and the tree swayed and looking down thinking the ground was far too far away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It would not have meant much to me that they were Quercus, Fagus \u00a0or Fraxinus, I knew the leaves, I responded to something embracing in the forms. I was to write a series of poems about trees when I grew older ( http:\/\/ruralists.com\/features\/beechtree\/index.html) but as a child I always looked for the trees when \u00a0we moved. Somehow they made me feel nothing much had changed. People&#8217;s faces, streets, names but not the trees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am fifty next week and I intend to do what I have continued to do all my life, climb a tree. Look at the view. Worry my dogs who will sit by the trunk looking up wondering how they can join me. \u00a0And I will be standing amidst 150 years, wrapped up in the bare boughs of an oak, beech or ash. And I will be celebrating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How well I remember as a child climbing trees. Always scared the higher I climbed but always looking at the next large bough and wondering what it would feel like to sit on it and how far I would be able to see. Then gripping it tightly as if my life depended upon it when&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[252,280,579,745],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-fagus","tag-fraxinus","tag-quercus","tag-tree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}