{"id":1970,"date":"2022-04-16T20:55:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T20:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2022-04-16T20:55:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T20:55:38","slug":"walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1970","title":{"rendered":"Walking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/afs-2021-2022-041603-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1971\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/afs-2021-2022-041603-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/afs-2021-2022-041603-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/afs-2021-2022-041603-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/afs-2021-2022-041603-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/afs-2021-2022-041603-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/afs-2021-2022-041603-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/afs-2021-2022-041603-1200x1500.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/afs-2021-2022-041603-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I walk there\u2019s much to experience that can set the tone for my day. The time of year and day can make a huge difference \u2014 tourist season, ferry schedules, landscapers, builders, rush hours \u2014 all of this plays into it. Some days are better than others, and I come home happy. Other days, while content, there may be underlying disappointment and irritation for any number of reasons, usually encountered on the walk. But not today.<br \/>\nWe cut through different lanes on each walk, and today I wanted to go by what I call the Easter basket house \u2014 with their side garden full of yellow daffodils, lavender, pink, purple, etc. hyacinths, tulips, and a host of other spring bulbs. All they needed was a few bunnies and chickens to complete that giant basket overflowing with joy. There were ospreys, robins, starlings and geese, and shrubs blooming magenta and cherry blossom pink, and it was all a visual treat.<br \/>\nI even found delight in the Wonder Bread bag caught on a post, and yes it\u2019s plastic, and yes it\u2019s litter, two things I very much despise, but it was a lighthearted reminder of happy childhoods of bologna, PBJs and fluffernutters on puffy white bread, and all the other memories that go with that childhood \u2014 all inspired by a plastic piece of trash decorated with colorful, cheery polka dots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I walk there\u2019s much to experience that can set the tone for my day. The time of year and day can make a huge difference \u2014 tourist season, ferry schedules, landscapers, builders, rush hours \u2014 all of this plays into it. Some days are better than others, and I come home happy. Other days, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1970\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Walking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[625],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1972,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/1972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}