{"id":871,"date":"2009-05-01T15:30:13","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T21:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/?p=871"},"modified":"2018-05-14T11:33:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T17:33:16","slug":"slowing-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/2009\/05\/slowing-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Slowing Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kerischneider\/3489821728\/\" title=\"Lotsa Pink by KeriFlur, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3594\/3489821728_a54a58f318.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" alt=\"Lotsa Pink\" \/><\/a>\n\n-->I started this week off with a case of, well, frankly, I don&#8217;t know what it was.  A virus of some sort, the kind that gives you a nasty headache, vertigo, nausea and exhaustion.  It forced me to slow down, and this slowing down let me tap into my creativity a bit more.  I ultimately got more done creatively than I&#8217;ve been getting done on a weekly basis, in part because I couldn&#8217;t run around doing errands and in part because thinking hurt, so over thinking was out of the question.  I&#8217;ve always heard that getting sick is the body&#8217;s way of telling me I&#8217;m doing too much.  I apparently need that reminder a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I took a walk on the street that I live on, but I walked on the other side.  That little action of crossing the street provided me with a whole new world to photograph.  All it took was a small change of perspective for me to see the world in a whole new way.  I found a beautiful flowering tree, a little stand of dandelions and a really quaint alley that I probably shouldn&#8217;t have been in (I think it was private property, oops!).  These were all things I&#8217;d walked past many times before but never bothered to pay attention to.  All I had to do was to slow down and open my eyes to a new perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started this week off with a case of, well, frankly, I don&#8217;t know what it was. A virus of some sort, the kind that gives you a nasty headache, vertigo, nausea and exhaustion. It forced me to slow down, and this slowing down let me tap into my creativity a bit more. I ultimately&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1791,"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],"tags":[113,466,141,315,14],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871"}],"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=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}