{"id":56,"date":"2005-05-19T23:22:30","date_gmt":"2005-05-20T03:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/19\/my-pond\/"},"modified":"2006-12-01T11:30:31","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T15:30:31","slug":"my-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/19\/my-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"My Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pond\"
\nFive years ago, when Wendy and I were searching for the property in which we would build our house, the criteria we had in mind was wooded, private, several acres, & a stream. We managed all but the stream. There is something about running water that just soothes and calms. Besides, we thought it would be a wonderful experience for the boys. Out there with their pants rolled up… hunting crayfish and tadpoles.<\/p>\n

When we went to that fancy bed and breakfast in Gettysburg, I snapped a photo of a pond they had out front. I’ve made up my mind that since I can’t have the stream, one day I will have a pond exactly like this out back by the patio. Pretty, isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five years ago, when Wendy and I were searching for the property in which we would build our house, the criteria we had in mind was wooded, private, several acres, & a stream. We managed all but the stream. There … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}