{"id":31628,"date":"2022-04-16T13:21:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T17:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=31628"},"modified":"2022-04-16T13:21:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T17:21:43","slug":"just-because-part-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/04\/just-because-part-46\/","title":{"rendered":"Just because, part 46"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/EtherealPads.jpg\" alt=\"unidentified water plants against reflected sun\" width=\"750\" height=\"1117\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31629\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>An outing to Jordan Lake yesterday was remarkably unproductive, but I managed a few frames of minor merit, and we have one here (demonstrating that my definition of &#8220;merit&#8221; isn&#8217;t influenced by Merriam, Wagnalls, Webster, or Funk &#8211; and no, that&#8217;s not where &#8220;funky&#8221; comes from, and you probably don&#8217;t want to know the actual etymology of <em>that<\/em>.) These might be some variety of lily pads, or they might not, but I&#8217;m not looking them up &#8211; the purpose hereof is just the aesthetics (again, mine.) The initial light angle made their shapes stand out, but shifting around a bit to put the sun&#8217;s reflection in the immediate surroundings made them more surreal. Should I have left the stem at the top out? Should I have waited to see if they would flower? Should I have stayed home and cleaned the office? These questions shall remain completely disregarded.<\/p>\n<p>This image is a little too similar to what will (likely, unless I get better in the interim) become the end-of-the-month abstract &#8211; another image that I shot yesterday &#8211; but that&#8217;s two weeks away and you&#8217;ll forget about this one by then. In fact, you probably already have. If you exist outside of my fevered imagination at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An outing to Jordan Lake yesterday was remarkably unproductive, but I managed a few frames of minor merit, and we have one here (demonstrating that my definition of &#8220;merit&#8221; isn&#8217;t influenced by Merriam, Wagnalls, Webster, or Funk &#8211; and no, that&#8217;s not where &#8220;funky&#8221; comes from, and you probably don&#8217;t want to know the actual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[1529,6707,1670,6706],"class_list":["post-31628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-abstract","tag-all-bets-are-off","tag-reflections","tag-water-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}