{"id":3167,"date":"2021-10-25T07:18:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T11:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2021-10-26T12:17:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T16:17:49","slug":"altered-horizons-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/altered-horizons-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Horizons 23"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Altered<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t just that there\u2019s been a ton of rain. The sky has been gray for days, sometimes with fat clouds lumbering across, and sometimes it\u2019s like an empty sky-in-waiting: plain dull white, like anything might materialize from it and fall to the earth. More rain. Hail. Snow.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not even November yet and I\u2019m aching for the summer sun.<\/span><\/p>\n

At nearby University Sand and Gravel there were magnificently rusted tractors and old equipment painted yellow and red. That thing in the middle of tires\u2014what\u2019s it called? A wheel maybe\u2014was screaming to me that it had a greater purpose than holding together some ancient truck. Perhaps it could hold ME together. Until springtime when it\u2019s warm and bright out again. I planted the wheel high in my fabricated landscape to turn it into a sun. Next, I was going to paste in a strip of rocks to create a horizon line and foreground, but the only natural bright light I\u2019d managed to capture in my photo was creeping up from the bottom. I couldn\u2019t bear to cover it up.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It isn’t just that there’s been a ton of rain. The sky has been gray for days, sometimes with fat clouds lumbering across, and sometimes it’s like an empty sky-in-waiting: plain dull white, like anything might materialize from it and fall to the earth. More rain. Hail. Snow. It’s not even November yet and I’m […]<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[438,705,2289,976,2315,2272,2270],"class_list":["post-3167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-h","tag-coping-with-loss","tag-dealing-with-depression","tag-fabricated-landscape","tag-grief-and-loss","tag-missing-sunlight","tag-photoshopping-for-healing","tag-upended-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}