{"id":1172,"date":"2007-02-21T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:35:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:35:46","slug":"water-lily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1172","title":{"rendered":"Water lily"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/IMG_0289-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5033779369809246290\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/IMG_0289-copy-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><em>How significant that the rich, black mud of our dead stream produces the water lily; out of that fertile slime springs this spotless purity! It is remarkable that those flowers which are the most emblematical of purity should grow in the mud.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">&#8211; Henry David Thoreau, from a journal entry<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">I felt like looking at water lilies today, so I&#8217;m posting this pic from last summer of one that grows in my little pond. I&#8217;ve forgotten the name, but water lilies tend to be mislabeled when I buy them anyway. It&#8217;s beautiful, that&#8217;s enough!<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><br \/>My guilty pleasure for the day was going to a bookstore during my lunch hour. I bought a charming book of nature quotes, poetry, short essays, and watercolors called <em><a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/booksearch\/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&amp;EAN=9781933937113&amp;itm=1\">Meditations on Nature, Meditations on Silence<\/a><\/em> published by Heron Dance Press. Their books are beautiful and I snatch them up whenever I come across one. Heron Dance also has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herondance.org\/\">website<\/a> that you might like to explore.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How significant that the rich, black mud of our dead stream produces the water lily; out of that fertile slime springs this spotless purity! It is remarkable that those flowers which are the most emblematical of purity should grow in the mud. &#8211; Henry David Thoreau, from a journal entry I felt like looking at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1172\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Water lily<\/span> <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":[],"categories":[23,31,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}