{"id":487,"date":"2009-01-29T18:20:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T00:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/?p=487"},"modified":"2018-05-16T09:57:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T15:57:34","slug":"finding-beauty-in-the-sparseness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/2009\/01\/finding-beauty-in-the-sparseness\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Beauty in the Sparseness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--<a title=\"Waiting for Spring by KeriFlur, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kerischneider\/3237873320\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3091\/3237873320_3f8b2c3b5e.jpg\" alt=\"Waiting for Spring\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a>\n\n-->While I&#8217;ve seen many winters before, this year, as I&#8217;m taking pictures and spending more time really looking at winter, I&#8217;m struck by the sparseness. Everywhere the branches are bare, the lakes are frozen expanses of empty white snow, the walking and biking paths devoid of people. The is a lot of beauty in the sparseness if one can get bundled up enough to enjoy it. I think when I moved to Minnesota I was so shocked at how cold the winters were that I forgot how pretty it was when the world is blanketed in white and the city sounds are muffled by the snow.\u00a0 So I&#8217;m setting a goal for myself for the next couple of months &#8211; I will look for that winter beauty, noticing the intricate forms that the branches of the oak trees make, or the winter feathers of the little birds that frequent those trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;ve seen many winters before, this year, as I&#8217;m taking pictures and spending more time really looking at winter, I&#8217;m struck by the sparseness. Everywhere the branches are bare, the lakes are frozen expanses of empty white snow, the walking and biking paths devoid of people. The is a lot of beauty in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,30],"tags":[147,148,113,462,5],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}