{"id":3416,"date":"2022-03-14T07:12:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T11:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=3416"},"modified":"2022-03-14T07:13:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T11:13:20","slug":"altered-horizons-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/altered-horizons-43\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Horizons 43"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/SeaMoonPost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3417 size-large\" title=\"Altered Horizons 43 Robin Botie of Ithaca, New York, photoshops a fabricated landscape in dealing with depression and coping with loss.\" src=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/SeaMoonPost-701x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Altered Horizons 43 Robin Botie of Ithaca, New York, photoshops a fabricated landscape in dealing with depression and coping with loss.\" width=\"701\" height=\"1024\" data-popupalt-original-title=\"null\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/SeaMoonPost-701x1024.jpg 701w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/SeaMoonPost-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/SeaMoonPost-768x1122.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/SeaMoonPost-616x900.jpg 616w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/SeaMoonPost-624x911.jpg 624w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/SeaMoonPost.jpg 986w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Is there anybody else out there who needs to live by a body of water? Long ago I used to leave the bathroom sink half full for my depressed cat who loved the dripping and dipping into water. Besides the old cat and myself, there must be others who crave water\u2019s calming, cheering, and mind-cleansing effects. After decades of living next to ponds, what will happen when I move away to a place where there\u2019s not even a bathtub? Someone please tell me how my obsession with water might then be quelled. By hanging huge photos of the ocean on my new walls? Or by keeping a tiny kiddie pool on the new patio?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Anticipating the move, I\u2019m creating fake seascapes in Photoshop, pasting together images of objects that reflect light. Like the zigzagging running-board of a tractor, metal ductwork, and silvery-painted chiseled wood. Maybe I can make something look like a lake. So I can fool my brain when I no longer have a pond to gaze upon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Altered Horizons 43<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there anybody else out there who needs to live by a body of water? Long ago I used to leave the bathroom sink half full for my depressed cat who loved the dripping and dipping into water. Besides the old cat and myself, there must be others who crave water&rsquo;s calming, cheering, and mind-cleansing [&hellip;]<\/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":[2372,2259,705,102,2271,976,2351,2270],"class_list":["post-3416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-h","tag-altered-horizons-43","tag-coping-with-change","tag-dealing-with-depression","tag-dealing-with-loss","tag-fabricated-landscapes","tag-grief-and-loss","tag-therapeutic-photography","tag-upended-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416","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=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}