{"id":3782,"date":"2013-10-27T12:27:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T17:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=3782"},"modified":"2013-10-26T20:41:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T01:41:20","slug":"the-mighty-have-fallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=3782","title":{"rendered":"The Mighty Have Fallen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/mightyfallen.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>Yes, the mighty have fallen.  Mighty trees, that is.  I took a little stroll recently thru the local county nature reservation, and began to ponder all the trees that got blown over by &#8220;superstorm&#8221; (semi-hurricane) Sandy, almost a year ago to this date.  Some of the trees here were fairly old; you can see all the yearly rings on one of the cut cross-sections. I guess-timated over 100 rings \/ years for some of these trees. So over a century went by and life went on quite successfully for these strong living objects.  Then one day, quite unexpectedly, a &#8220;superstorm&#8221; came along, and nothing was the same again. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, that is something to ponder.  No matter how well things seem to be going, no matter how abundantly one is blessed with success, no matter how much a person &#8220;just seems to have the knack&#8221; . . . in a moment, it can all come crashing down.  We do need to heed the lesson of humility that nature is offering here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the mighty have fallen. Mighty trees, that is. I took a little stroll recently thru the local county nature reservation, and began to ponder all the trees that got blown over by &#8220;superstorm&#8221; (semi-hurricane) Sandy, almost a year ago to this date. Some of the trees here were fairly old; you can see all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3784,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions\/3784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}