{"id":3375,"date":"2024-11-25T06:35:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T13:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2024-11-25T07:07:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T14:07:54","slug":"walk-a-familiar-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=3375","title":{"rendered":"Walk a Familiar Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3377\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3377\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_1180.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3377\" src=\"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_1180-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_1180-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_1180-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_1180-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_1180-830x623.jpg 830w, https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_1180-230x173.jpg 230w, https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_1180-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_1180-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The big bucks are back in time for Thanksgiving.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cTo learn something new, take the path today that you took yesterday\u201d wrote naturalist John Burroughs. In <em>The Magic of Walking<\/em> (Simon and Schuster 1980) Aaron Sussman and Ruth Goode agreed: \u201cEven the same walk, the one we may take every day, is never the same from one day to another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course they aren\u2019t: Weather changes. Seasons change. I change.<\/p>\n<p>I have two regular walks. One is in the country where I live and where I regularly encounter deer, turkey and some early morning golfers. The other is on the streets of the small town where I grew up and where I like to walk the old neighborhoods filled with the old memories.<\/p>\n<p>I can relax in my familiar paths, which makes it easier to think and pray and plan and remember. That said, I\u2019m always up for a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow\u2019s blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo learn something new, take the path today that you took yesterday\u201d wrote naturalist John Burroughs. In The Magic of Walking (Simon and Schuster 1980) Aaron Sussman and Ruth Goode agreed: \u201cEven the same walk, the one we may take every day, is never the same from one day to another.\u201d Of course they aren\u2019t: [&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-3375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375","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=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3379,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions\/3379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}