{"id":145,"date":"2006-04-11T06:56:18","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T14:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=145"},"modified":"2006-04-11T06:58:08","modified_gmt":"2006-04-11T14:58:08","slug":"good-news-nature-still-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/good-news-nature-still-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News: Nature Still Works!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from a brisk walk up and down (literally) our gravel driveway.<\/p>\n<p>The sun came up again, though I cannot see it because of the clouds.<\/p>\n<p>I saw a robin in the top of one of our trees. Such a neat song it sang.<\/p>\n<p>I also saw and heard two geese couples winging by across the little valley below us.<\/p>\n<p>Several cows grazed close to the driveway. They were close enough I could hear the sound of grass ripping away as they yanked it from its moorings. And in a pasture further away, I heard more of our landlord&#8217;s cows, mooing at him as he prepared to haul them hay.<\/p>\n<p>As I trudged back up our steep drive, I heard a pick-up gathering speed on the two-lane road behind me. Even things mechanical prove that nature still works.<\/p>\n<p>The cherry trees are blooming, as are some other trees. The grass is growing quite well. And so are the weeds in our garden plot (and in our yard). Trees are greening out.<\/p>\n<p>Like I say, nature still works. And that&#8217;s good news!<\/p>\n<p>Nature still works because God continues to work in our world and in our universe. Praise Him!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from a brisk walk up and down (literally) our gravel driveway. The sun came up again, though I cannot see it because of the clouds. I saw a robin in the top of one of our trees. Such a neat song it sang. I also saw and heard two geese couples &#8230; <a title=\"Good News: Nature Still Works!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/good-news-nature-still-works\/\" aria-label=\"More on Good News: Nature Still Works!\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-2l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}