{"id":3343,"date":"2024-11-16T06:45:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T13:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2024-11-16T07:09:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T14:09:48","slug":"the-highways-of-the-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=3343","title":{"rendered":"The Highways of the gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before talking about enjoying walking, perhaps it would be good to explore the alternative: Why does one <em>not<\/em> like it? What makes it unfun?<\/p>\n<p>John Burroughs was a 19<sup>th<\/sup> century naturalist who hung out with the likes of Walt Whitman (&#8220;Leaves of Grass&#8221;) and John Muir (think Yosemite Park). Burroughs said that people don\u2019t enjoy walking because \u201cwe have fallen from that state of grace which capacity to enjoy a walk implies.\u201d He is referring to our inability to find joy in the common, ordinary things we encounter on most of our journeys. \u201cWe crave the astonishing, the exciting, the far away, and do not know the highways of the gods when we see them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The \u201chighways of the gods.\u201d I suspect there are some near you. But you\u2019ll need a special grace to see them.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before talking about enjoying walking, perhaps it would be good to explore the alternative: Why does one not like it? What makes it unfun? John Burroughs was a 19th century naturalist who hung out with the likes of Walt Whitman (&#8220;Leaves of Grass&#8221;) and John Muir (think Yosemite Park). Burroughs said that people don\u2019t enjoy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3346,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions\/3346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}