{"id":28478,"date":"2019-04-22T20:03:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T01:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28478"},"modified":"2019-04-22T20:03:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T01:03:06","slug":"briefly-natures-beauty-connects-us-to-something-greater-than-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28478","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Nature\u2019s beauty connects us to something greater than we are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Tree-at-sunset.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28479\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Tree-at-sunset.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Tree-at-sunset.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Tree-at-sunset-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t see how anybody could spend a 70-degree evening under a canopy of spring leaves from massive trees \u2014 in the twilight after sunset \u2014 and not feel as though he\u2019s communing with something in Nature that\u2019s greater than he or she alone. I took pictures of a tree near my house at sunset and then drove home and spent the twilight in the yard with Lucy just feeling the joy of experiencing a stunning Creation as it unfolded all around me. It was another reminder that there is beauty everywhere \u2014 and that the beauty connects us to something greater than we are \u2014 if we just open our eyes and pay attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t see how anybody could spend a 70-degree evening under a canopy of spring leaves from massive trees \u2014 in the twilight after sunset \u2014 and not feel as though he\u2019s communing with something in Nature that\u2019s greater than he or she alone. I took pictures of a tree near my house at sunset <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28478\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7pk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28480,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28478\/revisions\/28480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}