{"id":6160,"date":"2015-07-15T01:56:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T01:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=6160"},"modified":"2017-04-15T02:01:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T02:01:28","slug":"a-river-runs-through-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/15\/a-river-runs-through-it\/","title":{"rendered":"a river runs through it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_6161\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6161\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tug-Fork-Big-Sandy-River-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tug-Fork-Big-Sandy-River-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tug-Fork-Big-Sandy-River-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tug-Fork-Big-Sandy-River-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tug-Fork-Big-Sandy-River-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tug-Fork-Big-Sandy-River-1000x1000.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tug-Fork-Big-Sandy-River-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tug-Fork-Big-Sandy-River.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Sandy River, 2015<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nTo love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love. Thich Nhat Hanh said that. Or something like it. <\/p>\n<p>I sat on the river bank this morning. Before the fog had a chance to lift into the sky. Wondering how many people I&#8217;ve wounded. Because I didn&#8217;t love them right. Because I didn&#8217;t know how to. Even though I thought I did. <\/p>\n<p>A crane swept by. A long-necked, dinosaur-looking bird. Pa says it&#8217;s the only one that lives here. The only one that ever has. I watched it follow the river, out of sight. <\/p>\n<p>The Tug Fork of the Big Sandy. The first place I was ever from.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love. Thich Nhat Hanh said that. Or something like it. I sat on the river bank this morning. Before the fog had a chance to lift into the sky. Wondering how many people I&#8217;ve wounded. Because I didn&#8217;t love them right. Because I didn&#8217;t<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[51,148,151,149,153,152,150],"class_list":["post-6160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hum-drum","category-photography","tag-appalachia","tag-big-sandy-river","tag-crane","tag-iaeger-wv","tag-pa","tag-thich-nhat-hanh","tag-tug-fork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6162,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160\/revisions\/6162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}