{"id":1726,"date":"2019-07-17T07:41:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T12:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/?page_id=1726"},"modified":"2025-07-18T21:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T02:04:09","slug":"the-burn-pile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/the-burn-pile\/","title":{"rendered":"The Burn Pile."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Are you a member of &#8220;the burn pile&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Left discarded, burned, frozen, trampled, ignored, then snowed and rained on over multiple seasons you can still produce perfect fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a lesson to learn from this pumpkin who despite all the odds decided life was worth continuing, set down roots, leafed out, flowered and successfully made another pumpkin. It didn&#8217;t have to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"1727\" src=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9114-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9114-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9114-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9114-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">August 3, 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"1729\" src=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9228-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9228-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9228-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9228-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">August 24, 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s the story of being a member of &#8220;the burn pile&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In our lives it&#8217;s not easy to do things well but it can be done in spite of the people, places and things that tried to keep us from doing it so well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We did it well anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome aboard the burn pile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>August 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a member of &#8220;the burn pile&#8221;? Left discarded, burned, frozen, trampled, ignored, then snowed and rained on over multiple seasons you can still produce perfect fruit. There is a lesson to learn from this pumpkin who despite all the odds decided life was worth continuing, set down roots, leafed out, flowered and successfully &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/the-burn-pile\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Burn Pile.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1726","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2169,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1726\/revisions\/2169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}