{"id":504,"date":"2021-03-05T12:21:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T20:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=504"},"modified":"2021-03-05T12:47:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T20:47:15","slug":"measuring-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2021\/03\/05\/measuring-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Latourell-Falls_Michael-Matti-via-Flickr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"520\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Latourell-Falls_Michael-Matti-via-Flickr.jpg 622w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Latourell-Falls_Michael-Matti-via-Flickr-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Measuring Up<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Let\u2019s say<br \/>\nyou are walking<br \/>\na trail called Mystery,<br \/>\nnew to you,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">toward the sound<br \/>\nof rushing water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">You come upon<br \/>\na stream,<br \/>\ncarelessly diving<br \/>\na hundred feet<br \/>\ninto a pool.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Would you pick<br \/>\na wildflower,<br \/>\nperhaps a calypso bulbosa,<br \/>\na fairy slipper,<br \/>\nand try to measure<br \/>\nthe velocity of a waterfall,<br \/>\none plucked petal<br \/>\nat a time?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">And yet you measure<br \/>\nyour morning,<br \/>\nspent trifling<br \/>\nwith words<br \/>\non a page,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">falling far short<br \/>\nof the number of<br \/>\nindustrious retorts<br \/>\nfrom the nailgun<br \/>\nacross the street.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">(Photo credit, Michael Massi, via Flickr)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Measuring Up Let\u2019s say you are walking a trail called Mystery, new to you, toward the sound of rushing water. You come upon a stream, carelessly diving a hundred feet into a pool. Would you pick a wildflower, perhaps a calypso bulbosa, a fairy slipper, and try to measure the velocity of a waterfall, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}