{"id":2907,"date":"2013-02-20T21:07:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T04:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=2907"},"modified":"2013-02-22T05:04:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T12:04:30","slug":"stepping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/stepping\/","title":{"rendered":"stepping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, I stepped outside the back door and saw a hawk sail overhead, majestic wingspan, graceful landing on a pallet tipped on its side in the upper yard. <\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, I stepped away from my desk at work and walked toward the front of the building &#8211; saw it was raining. When I left home that morning, it was sunny. I felt happy because of weather and the closed-in grayness of the rain. <\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, meandering through a morning dream of following two champion racewalkers around the city, observing their style, rooting for the underdog with his long stride in black clothing, I stepped around a corner. There they were, the champion racewalkers, &#8220;taking a break!&#8221; and chatting amicably with each other in spite of their intense rivalry. I fumbled for my cell phone in the dream, to take a picture of this break in the race. <\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, before leaving for work, I stepped outside to take a picture of the layers of color in clouds, stepping up to gray. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_0991_SkyGradient.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_0991_SkyGradient.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0991_SkyGradient\" width=\"600\" height=\"803\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_0991_SkyGradient.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_0991_SkyGradient-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_0991_SkyGradient-373x500.jpg 373w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, I stepped outside the back door and saw a hawk sail overhead, majestic wingspan, graceful landing on a pallet tipped on its side in the upper yard. Tuesday, I stepped away from my&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2907"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2918,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions\/2918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}