{"id":12837,"date":"2023-05-01T20:28:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T01:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=12837"},"modified":"2023-05-02T20:04:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T01:04:34","slug":"been-a-long-time-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=12837","title":{"rendered":"Been a Long Time Coming\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_3426.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12838\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_3426-840x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_3426-840x1024.jpg 840w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_3426-123x150.jpg 123w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_3426-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_3426-768x936.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_3426.jpg 1137w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A whole lot of sand<br \/>\nhas poured through the hourglass of my life<br \/>\nsince last I posted here<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;ve lost people, places and things<br \/>\nover the past many years<br \/>\nand now find myself alone<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Near the western shores<br \/>\nof the Great Lake Michigan<br \/>\n&#8220;home of the good spirit&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In the days before settlement,<br \/>\nour area was named Manitowoc<br \/>\nby the Native Americans<br \/>\nwho called this area their home.<br \/>\nManitowoc, meaning home of the good spirit,<br \/>\nwas regarded as a magical place<br \/>\nfor the mixed bands of Ottowa,<br \/>\nPotawatomi, Menominee and Ojibwa people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And from here, and now,<br \/>\nI hope to renew my self<br \/>\nas well as this imagist\/blog<\/p>\n<p><em>image: Mariner Trail, Manitowoc, WI, iPhone 6s Plus<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A whole lot of sand has poured through the hourglass of my life since last I posted here I&#8217;ve lost people, places and things over the past many years and now find myself alone Near the western shores of the Great Lake Michigan &#8220;home of the good spirit&#8221; In the days before settlement, our area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51,19,37,33,17,29,61,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-hand-made","category-landscapes","category-natural-world","category-photography","category-self-expression","category-tao","category-zen","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12837"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12851,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12837\/revisions\/12851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}