{"id":24923,"date":"2022-11-16T17:25:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T22:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=24923"},"modified":"2022-11-16T17:25:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T22:25:45","slug":"a-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=24923","title":{"rendered":"A flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A flower is not trying to be beautiful. Yet we find it to be beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>A cloud at sunset is not trying to be beautiful. Yet we find it to be beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>A blanket of snowfall in a secluded forest is not trying to be beautiful. Yet we find it to be beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>This list could clearly continue for quite a while. But I think you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>So what is going on here? Why are such things so beautiful? This is a serious question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A flower is not trying to be beautiful. Yet we find it to be beautiful. A cloud at sunset is not trying to be beautiful. Yet we find it to be beautiful. A blanket of snowfall in a secluded forest is not trying to be beautiful. Yet we find it to be beautiful. This list &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=24923\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A flower&#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\/24923"}],"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=24923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24924,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24923\/revisions\/24924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}