{"id":1557,"date":"2011-12-20T23:04:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T05:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2011-12-20T23:04:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T05:04:55","slug":"nothing-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2011\/12\/20\/nothing-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I look down upon an endless sea of white cloud tops lit by the morning sun chasing away the shadows of night.<\/p>\n<p>I look out and see this once, and I start writing. And then twice, and I write some more. And then a third time.<\/p>\n<p>After an hour has passed and we begin our descent into Birmingham, I close my notebook and put my pencil away. And I gaze out the window again.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, I think&#8230; certainly I have looked out this window enough. Certainly there is nothing else those clouds will tell me, no new message they will suggest. Certainly there is nothing more to write.<\/p>\n<p>But just then our airplane banks sharply. The morning sun reflects off the silver wing, making me squint. And in the distance it glints off a winding river snaking its way to the Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>I take my pencil and open my notebook.\u00a0No, there was indeed nothing else to see, nothing else to write. \u00a0I just thought I&#8217;d record that fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I look down upon an endless sea of white cloud tops lit by the morning sun chasing away the shadows of night. I look out and see this once, and I start writing. And then twice, and I write some more. And then a third time. After an hour has passed and we begin our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}