{"id":503,"date":"2017-08-20T10:09:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T10:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.harmonicroads.org.uk\/?p=503"},"modified":"2017-08-20T10:09:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T10:09:19","slug":"nature-does-not-hurry-20aug17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.harmonicroads.org.uk\/?p=503","title":{"rendered":"Nature does not hurry 20AUG17"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_504\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.harmonicroads.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC00179.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-504\" class=\"size-large wp-image-504\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.harmonicroads.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC00179-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.harmonicroads.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC00179-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.harmonicroads.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC00179-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.harmonicroads.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC00179-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flower<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Earlier in the summer there was some actual sun and I was out and about trying the new 28mm prime lens I got for my camera.<\/p>\n<p>While looking at the flowers and the greenery in Princes St Gardens, I was reminded of the saying<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished &#8211; Lao Tzu<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The flower blooms when it is ready, bees work steadily to collect pollen and make honey and the petals fall at just the right moment to wait and start again the next year. No hurrying, just progression.<\/p>\n<p>To live in harmony with nature, to what is needed when it is needed and then to accept whatever outcome occurs is the path to contentment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the summer there was some actual sun and I was out and about trying the new 28mm prime lens I got for my camera. While looking at the flowers and the greenery in Princes St Gardens, I was reminded of the saying Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished &#8211; Lao Tzu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.harmonicroads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.harmonicroads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.harmonicroads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.harmonicroads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.harmonicroads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.harmonicroads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/blog.harmonicroads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.harmonicroads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.harmonicroads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.harmonicroads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}