{"id":1552,"date":"2009-05-16T14:59:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T21:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2010-08-22T06:39:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T13:39:42","slug":"morning-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/morning-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late this morning, our youngest-but-already-fifteen son Andrew and I went on a one-hour hike. Just here on our home place.<\/p>\n<p>If you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/anabaptist\/\">follow me on Twitter<\/a>, then you already read this:<\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>Sitting in sun on tree root by tiny babbling waterfall in little creek in back 40. Peaceful!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I posted that to Twitter from my cellphone at 10:52 this morning. (For a practically-fifty-year-old, that&#8217;s pretty amazing stuff even yet!)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is where I was when I Twittered that:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/mesittingfar-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/mesittingfar-s.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Roth, roosting on a root.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/mesittingcloser-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/mesittingcloser-s.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Roth, waxing meditative by a creek\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Sitting there in the warm sunshine listening to the babbling waterfall was therapeutic, relaxing, and conducive to thinking thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Then I looked to my right and my thoughts became less meditative and more contemplative. <i>&#8220;If he becomes territorial and aggressive, how long will this little creek delay him?&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/lookingatme-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/lookingatme-s.jpg\" alt=\"Alert for the bull, who's keeping an eye on me\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>After eyeballing me a couple of times, he ignored me in favor of keeping his attention focused on the grass.<\/p>\n<p>So I turned my attention upward:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/overhead-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/overhead-s.jpg\" alt=\"Looking over my head from my perch on the root over the creek\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Then zoomed in on the left-most branches:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/overheadzoom-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/overheadzoom-s.jpg\" alt=\"Still looking overhead from over the creek, but zoomed in\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A very nice place to be. Oh, hey, I just remembered I have an aerial shot:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/roth@kropf.jpg\" alt=\"Our place from space\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The tree I sat under is in the tree line to the right of the five-sided field at the right edge of the photo. \ud83d\ude42<\/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>Late this morning, our youngest-but-already-fifteen son Andrew and I went on a one-hour hike. Just here on our home place. If you follow me on Twitter, then you already read this: Sitting in sun on tree root by tiny babbling waterfall in little creek in back 40. Peaceful! I posted that to Twitter from my &#8230; <a title=\"Morning Hike\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/morning-hike\/\" aria-label=\"More on Morning Hike\">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":[5,13,463],"tags":[428,672,854],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-photos","category-tech-stuff","category-thisandthat","tag-cell-phone","tag-nature","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-p2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","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=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}