{"id":490,"date":"2008-10-28T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2008\/10\/a-complete-experience\/"},"modified":"2008-10-28T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T18:50:00","slug":"a-complete-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2008\/10\/a-complete-experience.html","title":{"rendered":"A Complete Experience"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_0uPSljNE9f4\/SQela3p9l6I\/AAAAAAAAAIU\/AW0rzv2Laoo\/s1600-h\/101_0146.JPG\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0px auto 10px;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 320px;height: 240px\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_0uPSljNE9f4\/SQela3p9l6I\/AAAAAAAAAIU\/AW0rzv2Laoo\/s320\/101_0146.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a>A natural <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enso\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">enso\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>in the woods behind our house. Admiring and photographing this gnarled tree capped off an afternoon romp with dog Bodhi and my kids. There is something inexplicably satisfying for me in see Bodhi and my kids running wild in a field of tall, golden grasses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/4330911338438640912-8203846579662699176?l=wildfoxzen.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A natural enso\u00a0\u00a0in the woods behind our house. Admiring and photographing this gnarled tree capped off an afternoon romp with dog Bodhi and my kids. 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