{"id":366,"date":"2009-03-30T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T07:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2009\/03\/earth-hour\/"},"modified":"2009-03-30T07:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T07:32:00","slug":"earth-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2009\/03\/earth-hour.html","title":{"rendered":"Earth Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>In reverse order \u2013 two pics taken after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthhour.org\/home\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Earth Hour<\/a> Saturday night and one just before (choosing to not use even the camera during the hour): <a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_fyeYpxfdjuI\/SdBolEGPA3I\/AAAAAAAAAZk\/UaPvvZmGbwo\/s1600-h\/DSC_1408.JPG\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 320px;height: 213px\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_fyeYpxfdjuI\/SdBolEGPA3I\/AAAAAAAAAZk\/UaPvvZmGbwo\/s320\/DSC_1408.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_fyeYpxfdjuI\/SdBok-FbzAI\/AAAAAAAAAZc\/2QMkrKN90fY\/s1600-h\/DSC_1405.JPG\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 320px;height: 213px\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_fyeYpxfdjuI\/SdBok-FbzAI\/AAAAAAAAAZc\/2QMkrKN90fY\/s320\/DSC_1405.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_fyeYpxfdjuI\/SdBokkF5FvI\/AAAAAAAAAZU\/hwdWM8sYIuw\/s1600-h\/DSC_1391.JPG\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 320px;height: 213px\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_fyeYpxfdjuI\/SdBokkF5FvI\/AAAAAAAAAZU\/hwdWM8sYIuw\/s320\/DSC_1391.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>The hour was wonderful, a well-needed break from electric lights, the net, digital music, and all the rest that we simply take for granted 99% of the time.  And, with all of those out of the way, Julie and I simply sat, sipped our wine, and enjoyed one another\u2019s company, things that I also seem to take for granted far too often in my \u201cbusy busy, rush rush\u201d life.<\/p>\n<p>The shadows on the wall just kind of jumped out at us during the hour as we sat with just one candle on the table \u2013 so when the hour was up we started playing with that, leading us to be a bit late to our friend Jen\u2019s for a game night.  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