{"id":8516,"date":"2020-12-10T21:54:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T02:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=8516"},"modified":"2023-03-29T19:41:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T23:41:40","slug":"field-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2020\/12\/field-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Field journal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m currently taking the California Certified Naturalist class, with a curriculum developed by the University of California, and offered through a local environmental nonprofit, Grassroots Ecology. One of the ongoing assignments is to keep a field journal of observations of the natural world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keeping a field journal feels like a kind of spiritual practice to me. It&#8217;s a way to keep connected with the non-human organisms around us, and helps me pay attention to the abiotic components on which life depends. It forces me to get away from the computer and get outdoors, which is something I need to do more of. And it&#8217;s very calming, probably because I stop thinking about myself, and think about something larger than myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/BlogDec1020-760x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/BlogDec1020-760x1024.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/BlogDec1020-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/BlogDec1020-768x1035.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/BlogDec1020-1139x1536.jpg 1139w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/BlogDec1020-1200x1618.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/BlogDec1020.jpg 1298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently taking the California Certified Naturalist class, with a curriculum developed by the University of California, and offered through a local environmental nonprofit, Grassroots Ecology. One of the ongoing assignments is to keep a field journal of observations of the natural world. Keeping a field journal feels like a kind of spiritual practice to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2020\/12\/field-journal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Field journal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,43],"tags":[539,924,912],"class_list":["post-8516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bay-area-calif","category-meditations","tag-coastal-redwood-ecosystem","tag-field-journal","tag-spiritual-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8518,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516\/revisions\/8518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}