{"id":899,"date":"2020-08-18T06:57:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T11:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=899"},"modified":"2020-08-18T06:57:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T11:57:44","slug":"the-big-blue-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=899","title":{"rendered":"The Big Blue Room"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"306\" src=\"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/bird.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/bird.png 500w, https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/bird-300x184.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Heron on a log<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The weekend was punctuated with a few nice surprises. I got an email from an old friend. We&#8217;ve corresponded since he was my student almost 15 years ago. He&#8217;s a good man and a good friend. I&#8217;ve followed his travels around the world with great interest. It&#8217;s wonderful to see someone who is smart, funny, capable, and, most importantly, a good person go out into the world to see and do big things. Getting his email on a Saturday morning was a treat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other notable treat was being told to toss my kayak on the Jeep and go out paddling while my wife took the kids on a hike Sunday morning. It&#8217;s rare that I do things on my own. Let&#8217;s face it, in The After Times we&#8217;re always on top of one another. Getting out on the water where it was very quiet and having no responsibilities aside from keeping myself upright was a wonderful gift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not a nature photographer (or any other kind, really) but I took a few quick pictures of a blue heron that was allowing me to get very close. It was like a segment from &#8220;Sunday Morning&#8221; with Charles Kuralt. Well, in my mind it was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weekend was punctuated with a few nice surprises. I got an email from an old friend. We&#8217;ve corresponded since he was my student almost 15 years ago. He&#8217;s a good man and a good friend. I&#8217;ve followed his travels &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=899\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}