{"id":270,"date":"2009-11-29T22:16:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T22:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/?p=270"},"modified":"2009-11-29T22:20:12","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T22:20:12","slug":"this-moment-soon-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/2009\/11\/this-moment-soon-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"This Moment, Soon Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_271\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligntop\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-271\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-271\" title=\"Sunrise \" src=\"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Sunrise-Nov-06-004-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"photography by Patti Tokar copyright 2006 All Rights Reserved\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Sunrise-Nov-06-004-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Sunrise-Nov-06-004.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photography by Patti Tokar copyright 2006 All Rights Reserved<\/p><\/div>\n<p>post by Patti Tokar<\/p>\n<p>Nature offers beauty at unexpected moments:  A magenta drenched sunset.  Golden light dazzling in sharp patterns across the field.  Frost breathed in white layers over the lawn.  A single pink rose blossoming amidst the fall leaves.  A baby concentrating hard on pulling herself to a full stand.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that these moments are soon lost; that when I have a passing thought of a beautiful sight, it&#8217;s time to stop and bring it into full focus. Sometimes there is not even time to get my camera.  Sometimes I just have to stand and experience it and let the memory serve as my only reminder of the beauty that was just in front of me.<\/p>\n<p>Teach yourself to appreciate beauty.\u00a0 Teach yourself that when beauty arrives in your life, you will allow yourself to fully experience it before it fades away.\u00a0   It just takes a moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>post by Patti Tokar Nature offers beauty at unexpected moments: A magenta drenched sunset. Golden light dazzling in sharp patterns across the field. Frost breathed in white layers over the lawn. A single pink rose blossoming amidst the fall leaves. A baby concentrating hard on pulling herself to a full stand. I&#8217;ve learned that these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,73,22],"tags":[79,421,80,81],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}