{"id":40363,"date":"2023-04-02T02:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=40363"},"modified":"2023-04-02T02:00:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T06:00:47","slug":"natures-abstractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/04\/02\/natures-abstractions\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature&#8217;s Abstractions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Tree outside of work\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/52781738199\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52781738199_4fe2b00375_z.jpg?resize=480%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tree outside of work\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>This is a twisted old tree in Lansdowne that I have been passing by and admiring for years. It&#8217;s not the first time I have shot it, and it won&#8217;t be the last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a twisted old tree in Lansdowne that I have been passing by and admiring for years. It&#8217;s not the first time I have shot it, and it won&#8217;t be the last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[77,2093],"tags":[988,118,2119,1101,5596],"class_list":["post-40363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-commuting","category-photography-2","tag-black-and-white","tag-photography","tag-texture","tag-tree","tag-twisted"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-av1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20274,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/01\/14\/a-tree-grows-in-lansdowne\/","url_meta":{"origin":40363,"position":0},"title":"A Tree Grows in Lansdowne","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"January 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"My favorite tree on the way to work. 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