{"id":920,"date":"2020-09-08T09:50:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T14:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=920"},"modified":"2020-09-08T09:50:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T14:50:46","slug":"coming-and-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"Coming and Going"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/USA.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/USA.png 500w, https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/USA-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Map of the USA made of river stones.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Walks in the park are the new going out. In truth, as long as my wife and I have been together, it&#8217;s been a staple for us. We&#8217;ve always hiked together. At first, in TX with her faithful rottie. Then with the littles, now much larger, and new puppies. But a walk in the trees is certainly nothing new in our house. Having it as the only real outlet or expression of &#8220;doing something&#8221; might be. And that&#8217;s not awful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had a small gathering. It was the usual suspects from our bubble with one additional friend from a far away place. We at RIBS! and chatted on the patio. It was nice to be around people and eat food prepared with care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m taking more time to watch the world breathe. A long drive alone in the Jeep did wonders. I visited houses I once knew and graves. I passed over the new blacktop on old roads. My mind had a chance to unwind just a bit. From the road, I could see the breath of the world moving in and out. I could feel that this rhythm we&#8217;re in now isn&#8217;t new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walks in the park are the new going out. In truth, as long as my wife and I have been together, it&#8217;s been a staple for us. We&#8217;ve always hiked together. At first, in TX with her faithful rottie. Then &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=920\">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":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920"}],"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=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}