{"id":9469,"date":"2022-07-19T20:19:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T00:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=9469"},"modified":"2022-07-19T22:43:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T02:43:31","slug":"allens-pond-at-sundown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2022\/07\/allens-pond-at-sundown\/","title":{"rendered":"Allens Pond at sundown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Allens-Pond-Westport-1024x769.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Allens-Pond-Westport-1024x769.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Allens-Pond-Westport-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Allens-Pond-Westport-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Allens-Pond-Westport-1536x1153.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Allens-Pond-Westport-1200x901.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Allens-Pond-Westport.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Allens Pond, Westport, Mass.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I took a walk after dinner, past the crowd waiting at Bayside Restaurant, across the street to Allens Pond. In the field within sight of the road, a man was talking to a twelve year old boy who had earbuds dangling around his neck. &#8220;There are probably foxes in here,&#8221; he said, gesturing to a field. The boy didn&#8217;t seem impressed. I said hello, and the man returned my greeting. &#8220;Perfect day,&#8221; I said. &#8220;Yeah, it is!&#8221; he said with a big smile on his face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few people were walking the Beach Loop, but as soon as I turned onto the Quansett Trail, there were no more human beings &#8212; just a rabbit. I walked down to where I could see Allens Pond. An Osprey sat on a nesting platform in the distance. The sun slowly sank behind the trees, leaving a few patches of salt marsh grass looking golden. A Willow Flycatcher gave its &#8220;Fitzbew!&#8221; call. I took a photo, and then just stood there watching the light slowly change. It wasn&#8217;t mindfulness so much as mindlessness &#8212; there was nothing in my mind, including my mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the most engaging thing I&#8217;ve done all day. I think I&#8217;m badly in need of this vacation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a walk after dinner, past the crowd waiting at Bayside Restaurant, across the street to Allens Pond. In the field within sight of the road, a man was talking to a twelve year old boy who had earbuds dangling around his neck. &#8220;There are probably foxes in here,&#8221; he said, gesturing to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2022\/07\/allens-pond-at-sundown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Allens Pond at sundown&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[837],"class_list":["post-9469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-trips","tag-2022-road-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469","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=9469"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9474,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions\/9474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}