{"id":5424,"date":"2015-05-26T14:56:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T19:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=5424"},"modified":"2015-05-25T15:18:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T20:18:27","slug":"go-jump-in-the-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=5424","title":{"rendered":"Go Jump In The Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/LakeSkan1.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>Here is some trailside philosophy that I came across yesterday (Memorial Day) during a hike along the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Long_Path\" target=\"_blank\">Long Path<\/a> in Harriman State Park (NY).  If I had a marker or a paintbrush, I would have put an addendum below this thought.  One word . . . &#8220;yet&#8221;.  Actually, ZXZ&#8217;s thought is rather profound . . . i.e., the reality of ourselves is in our stories, in our journeys, in movement.  We do not exist as something still, something static, as say a glass of water or a rock can.   Without movement, without life, we are just carbon-based flesh with a few other chemicals thrown in.  If we really &#8220;are&#8221;, then we&#8217;re here, not there . . . not yet.  But like that caterpillar on the tree, we&#8217;re moving towards &#8220;there&#8221;, and in that movement, in that journey, we take on our identities and our reality.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/LakeSkan2.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>The second pic shows some guys beating the heat yesterday at Lake Skannatati.  We do stuff like jumping into lakes on hot afternoons.  That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re here, that&#8217;s why we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is some trailside philosophy that I came across yesterday (Memorial Day) during a hike along the Long Path in Harriman State Park (NY). If I had a marker or a paintbrush, I would have put an addendum below this thought. One word . . . &#8220;yet&#8221;. Actually, ZXZ&#8217;s thought is rather profound . . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,10,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424"}],"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=5424"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5430,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions\/5430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}