{"id":7379,"date":"2015-02-11T12:53:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T12:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/11\/february-in-the-zone\/"},"modified":"2015-02-11T12:53:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T12:53:10","slug":"february-in-the-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/11\/february-in-the-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"February in the Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">February brings to the Sonoran desert days so beautiful that one feels guilty even sitting on the back porch, half-outside, taking it all in, eyes playing over the spring green, lungs deeply enfolding blossom-laden warmish breezes.&#0160; One feels that one ought to be walking around in this earthly heaven.&#0160; And this despite my having done just that early this morning. &#0160; <em>Vita brevis<\/em>, and February too with its 28 days.&#0160; The fugacity of February to break the heart whose day is at its center.&#0160; It&#39;s all fleeting, one can&#39;t get enough of it.&#0160; Joy wants eternity.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">And now, I head back outside, away from this too-complicated machine, to read simply and slowly some more from <em>Stages on Life&#39;s Way<\/em> and to drink a cup of java to stave off the halcyon sleepiness wrought by lambent light and long vistas on this afternoon in the foothills of the Superstition Mountains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0819\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0147e21aae83970b-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"IMG_0819\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February brings to the Sonoran desert days so beautiful that one feels guilty even sitting on the back porch, half-outside, taking it all in, eyes playing over the spring green, lungs deeply enfolding blossom-laden warmish breezes.&#0160; One feels that one ought to be walking around in this earthly heaven.&#0160; And this despite my having done &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/11\/february-in-the-zone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;February in the Zone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,92,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-autobiographical","category-slow-down"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}