{"id":21406,"date":"2019-08-04T23:32:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T04:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21406"},"modified":"2019-08-04T23:33:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T04:33:57","slug":"flying-in-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21406","title":{"rendered":"Flying in clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I think I need to step away for a bit away from the deeply tragic events going on in our nation right now, and talk about something more innocent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/flying_in_clouds.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/flying_in_clouds.png\" alt=\"flying_in_clouds\" width=\"403\" height=\"303\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21407\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/flying_in_clouds.png 1208w, http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/flying_in_clouds-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/flying_in_clouds-1024x770.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 403px) 85vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, as I was flying over the U.S., I looked out my window and realized we were inside a cloud. And it brought me back to my childhood.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a little kid, I used to look up into the sky and wonder what it might be like to be inside a cloud. Would it be like walking on a ball of fluffy cotton? Strolling through a field of cotton candy?<\/p>\n<p>Would I find that there were people living in the cloud? If so, would I get along with the cloud people?<\/p>\n<p>Now that I am a grown-up, I can fly through clouds any time I want. But the problem is I now know too much.<\/p>\n<p>I no longer expect to walk through fields of cotton candy. I know I will never get to hang out with the cloud people.<\/p>\n<p>And it makes me sad, because the child version of me still holds on to those visions. Yet the grown-up version knows they are not true.<\/p>\n<p>But also that they should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I think I need to step away for a bit away from the deeply tragic events going on in our nation right now, and talk about something more innocent. Yesterday, as I was flying over the U.S., I looked out my window and realized we were inside a cloud. And it brought me back &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21406\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flying in clouds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21406"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21410,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21406\/revisions\/21410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}