{"id":203,"date":"2011-11-22T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2013-12-26T15:45:38","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T20:45:38","slug":"natural-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/natural-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/fall.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/fall.jpg?resize=500%2C373\" alt=\"\" title=\"fall\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/fall.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/fall.jpg?resize=300%2C223&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nArriving home from work before the time changed and the world plunged into darkness by 5pm I looked out my balcony window. I had to stop and stare at the explosion of fall colors outside. From seven stories up, I have an unobstructed view of the trees and sky as far as the eye can see.<\/p>\n<p>I was struck by just how beautiful the part of the world I live in can be during the Fall. Growing up in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley ((and being a kid)) I took for granted the natural beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the expanses of trees and farmland.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;m older, I take the time to reflect on the natural beauty of the world.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so easy to forget how much beauty there is in the world and so easy to fall victim to the busyness invading every waking moment of my life.<\/p>\n<p>Randy Murray wrote recently about <a href=\"http:\/\/whowritesforyou.com\/2011\/11\/11\/writing-assignment-notice-the-beauty-around-you\/\">noticing the beauty around you<\/a> and even before he put this thoughts into words as the daily writing assignment for 11-11-11 I had similar thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>The world is such a gorgeous place and so often I&#8217;m too busy and rushing too fast to stop and notice it. Stop and take a moment today to notice how beautiful the world around you is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arriving home from work before the time changed and the world plunged into darkness by 5pm I looked out my balcony window. I had to stop and stare at the explosion of fall colors outside. From seven stories up, I have an unobstructed view of the trees and sky as far as the eye can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":[1],"tags":[238,236,239,237,242],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote-about","tag-beauty","tag-fall","tag-pause","tag-trees","tag-view-from-my-window"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}