{"id":1514,"date":"2007-07-22T18:35:14","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T23:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2007-07-22T18:36:31","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T23:36:31","slug":"lunch-break-the-nature-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=1514","title":{"rendered":"Lunch break @ the nature center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/861932931\/\" title=\"Yellow Flowers\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1035\/861932931_81fbbe74b7_m.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Yellow Flowers\" class=\"entry\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\"\/><\/a> Most days I am way too lazy to leave work during lunch. I usually find a quiet place to read and eat a tv dinner or sandwich.<\/p>\n<p>However, on Friday I felt like getting out since it was such a beautiful day. I took my camera over to a nearby nature center. I quickly ate my sandwich in the car and then walked a trail before I went inside to check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/861932133\/\">turtles<\/a> in the center&#8217;s indoor pond. <\/p>\n<p>After watching the turtles swim around for awhile, I came back outside to check out the flowers and surrounding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/862791064\/\">landscape<\/a>. Once I had explored everything, I sat at one of the picnic tables and just enjoyed the sounds of nature. It was so relaxing and before I knew it, I had to go back to work to the stale air-conditioned air and a sunless cubicle. It was nice while it lasted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most days I am way too lazy to leave work during lunch. I usually find a quiet place to read and eat a tv dinner or sandwich. However, on Friday I felt like getting out since it was such a beautiful day. I took my camera over to a nearby nature center. I quickly ate my sandwich in the car and then walked a trail before I went inside to check out the turtles in the center&#8217;s indoor pond. After watching the turtles swim around for awhile, I came back outside to check out the flowers and surrounding landscape. Once I had explored everything, I sat at one of the picnic tables and just enjoyed the sounds of nature. It was so relaxing and before I knew it, I had to go back to work to the stale air-conditioned air and a sunless cubicle. It was nice while it lasted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}