{"id":460,"date":"2012-05-14T16:16:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T22:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=460"},"modified":"2012-05-14T16:16:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T22:16:11","slug":"growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/511-growing-log-pile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-461\" title=\"511 growing log pile\" src=\"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/511-growing-log-pile-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/511-growing-log-pile-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/511-growing-log-pile-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As this log pile grows, the items in the house vanish.\u00a0 Vanish is not quite the optimum word.\u00a0 We piece through each and every shred of our lives and wonder what to take.\u00a0 I constantly remind myself that I have memories to last a lifetime.\u00a0 I have a few special trinkets and odds and ends that spark obsolete moments in time.\u00a0 But, do I need the flotsam to trigger those memories and if so, at what cost?\u00a0 New memories are mine for the taking.\u00a0 I can pick and choose what I need and want to have surrounding me.\u00a0 A simple shell, a bird&#8217;s nest, drift wood, rust, flowers, slugs and an occasional deer antler.\u00a0 What else is there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As this log pile grows, the items in the house vanish.\u00a0 Vanish is not quite the optimum word.\u00a0 We piece through each and every shred of our lives and wonder what to take.\u00a0 I constantly remind myself that I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=460\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}