{"id":3380,"date":"2024-11-26T05:19:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T12:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2024-11-26T05:19:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T12:19:18","slug":"walk-to-be-surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=3380","title":{"rendered":"Walk To Be Surprised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Wanderlust: A History of Walking<\/em>, Rebecca Solnit says that walking \u201callows you to find what you don\u2019t know you are looking for, and you don\u2019t know a place until it surprises you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I would have said \u201cyou don\u2019t know what you are looking for until it surprises you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like the twin fawns, still in their spotted coats, I came across on my country walk, who peered curiously at me from their safe spot beneath their mother\u2019s belly. Or the old friend I met on my town walk, who arrived at the exact same corner at the exact time of day as I.<\/p>\n<p>Do you believe in divine coincidences? I do. I think God loves to surprise us, and he often does it on our walks.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I\u2019m blogging about the joy of discovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Wanderlust: A History of Walking, Rebecca Solnit says that walking \u201callows you to find what you don\u2019t know you are looking for, and you don\u2019t know a place until it surprises you.\u201d I would have said \u201cyou don\u2019t know what you are looking for until it surprises you.\u201d Like the twin fawns, still in [&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-3380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380","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=3380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3381,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions\/3381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}