{"id":43,"date":"2009-03-08T14:45:47","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T19:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2009-03-20T14:47:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T19:47:58","slug":"moonshadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Moonshadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"148\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/?attachment_id=148\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/daddy_longlegs.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"450,336\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"daddy_longlegs\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/daddy_longlegs.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-148\" title=\"daddy_longlegs\" src=\"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/daddy_longlegs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/daddy_longlegs.jpg 450w, https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/daddy_longlegs-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><strong>Nature Log<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thirteen degrees, bright moon low in sky casting long shadows in the crusty snow. A nighttime snowshoe to the harbor, where a sparkling reflection of moonlight made a path on the water, a moonglade it is called. I want to walk up it to moon. We wiggled and waved our arms and legs, making groteques long shadows, and thought of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cherylrainfield.com\/ebook-daddy-long-legs.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daddy Long Legs<\/a>, by Jean Webster, a children&#8217;s book from about 1912 which is still full of relevance: hard work and perseverence can bring success. So, okay part of that success was a rich husband, but most of it was growing up mature and caring, and gaining education and the thirst for learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature Log Thirteen degrees, bright moon low in sky casting long shadows in the crusty snow. A nighttime snowshoe to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3djTm-H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromthecreek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}