{"id":1849,"date":"2020-03-19T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/?page_id=1849"},"modified":"2020-03-19T09:58:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T14:58:00","slug":"the-burn-pile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/2020\/03\/19\/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 columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9114-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1727\" data-link=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/?attachment_id=1727\" 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=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">August 3, 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9228-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1729\" data-link=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/img_9228\/\" 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=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">August 24, 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/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","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\/2020\/03\/19\/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,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17,5,16,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-home","category-people","category-photography","category-public"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1850,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions\/1850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}