{"id":130,"date":"2015-10-08T11:07:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T15:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=130"},"modified":"2015-10-08T11:07:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T15:07:54","slug":"43-my-friendly-neighborhood-great-blue-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"43.  My Friendly Neighborhood Great Blue Heron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Heron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-131\" src=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Heron-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Heron\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Heron-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Heron.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This morning I was having my quiet time and wondering a little bit if I&#8217;m in the right place.\u00a0 I&#8217;d been looking at photos from my time in Germany last night, and remembering what a boost I&#8217;d get from visiting castles.\u00a0 Maybe I should try to go back?\u00a0 But when I was there before, I had a husband and two sons to do the castling with.\u00a0 People really make all the difference.<\/p>\n<p>And here I have a super meaningful job and wonderful connections with people at church.\u00a0 And I was thinking about lots of good things in my life right now, while staring out the window down at my lake &#8212; when the great blue heron walked right through my view.<\/p>\n<p>He quickly went behind grasses, so I couldn&#8217;t get a picture of him from my house, but you can be sure I brought my camera when I went for my walk later.\u00a0 And yes, I got my heron fix!<\/p>\n<p>I laugh about the idea of a heron fix, but I have to admit that regularly seeing my friendly neighborhood great blue heron never fails to remind me that I have a beautiful life, here and now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This morning I was having my quiet time and wondering a little bit if I&#8217;m in the right place.\u00a0 I&#8217;d been looking at photos from my time in Germany last night, and remembering what a boost I&#8217;d get from visiting castles.\u00a0 Maybe I should try to go back?\u00a0 But when I was there before, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}