{"id":6102,"date":"2016-07-07T00:05:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T13:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=6102"},"modified":"2016-07-07T00:05:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T13:35:29","slug":"a-bending-of-wills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=6102","title":{"rendered":"A Bending of Wills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This small tree meagering an existence on the parched skyline of Kings Canyon is living a struggle which makes most of our lives look like that of pampered royalty.<\/p>\n<p>If we tried to live naked in such an inhospitable but oh so beautifully place I am sure that stark beauty would be lost in self consuming misery.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps there is a message here in the will to live of a small bent tree that just might be worth noticing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;A Bending of Wills&#8217;, 1\/640s f\/18 ISO160 15mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This small tree meagering an existence on the parched skyline of Kings Canyon is living a struggle which makes most of our lives look like that of pampered royalty. If we tried to live naked in such an inhospitable but oh so beautifully place I am sure that stark beauty would be lost in self [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1472,754,1536,1533,1549,71,1537,765,767,935,29],"class_list":["post-6102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alien","tag-australia","tag-centralaustralia","tag-desert","tag-kingscanyon","tag-landscape","tag-northernterritory","tag-outback","tag-rugged","tag-sunburst","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6104,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6102\/revisions\/6104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}