{"id":279,"date":"2010-03-08T07:39:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T07:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nanavati.eu\/weblog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2010-03-08T07:39:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T07:39:56","slug":"morning-walks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/08\/morning-walks\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Walks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Getting up as 6 am when it is still a little dusky in Cornwall and going with the dogs around the fields in the quiet before anyone but the farmers are awake. Walking around a seeing more and more as the light strengthens, picking up the odd large piece of timber fallen from a dying part of a tree, and seeing the odd rabbit dart away in fright or the merest glimpse of an animal I cannot recognise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I realise that for all i have eyes I miss almost everything. The lights shines stronger but I cannot see the frost melting on the grass, I cannot see the rabbits cured up in their burrows or know if they can hear me tramp above them. I cannot see any of the insects crawling about in the hedgerows even when I peer in close. The only time I see the cobwebs spread across the fields like delicate icing is when they are covered with morning dew.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I know the roots of the plants are working away, that sap is rising in the trees, that bulbs and seeds are gradually awakening but I see it all only later. I see the results of all this activity. \u00a0And maybe that is my place, but I miss not seeing all the effort that goes into making the world I see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting up as 6 am when it is still a little dusky in Cornwall and going with the dogs around the fields in the quiet before anyone but the farmers are awake. Walking around a seeing more and more as the light strengthens, picking up the odd large piece of timber fallen from a dying&#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":[675],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-spiders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","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=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}