{"id":7213,"date":"2015-05-31T03:12:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T16:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=7213"},"modified":"2015-05-31T03:12:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T16:12:48","slug":"on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=7213","title":{"rendered":"On the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, for the first time in a long time, my son and I met for morning tea in a caf\u00e9, and on our way back to the car I caught sight of some writing engraved into the concrete as we stepped up on a kerb. I stooped to take a photo, and at that moment a bus turned the corner.\u00a0 My son thought I was crazy, crouching down on the road, focused on photographing a bit of concrete graffiti while a passing bus was leaning into the corner.\u00a0 But he was missing the magic of the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what captured my attention:\u00a0 a grey concrete kerb, utilitarian and ugly, made &#8216;beautiful&#8217; with a few words and autumn leaves collected in the hollow of the gutter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7258\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/you-are-beautiful-2.jpg?w=750\" alt=\"You are beautiful 2\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/you-are-beautiful-2.jpg 5472w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/you-are-beautiful-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/you-are-beautiful-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/you-are-beautiful-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/you-are-beautiful-2-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks WordPress for the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.wordpress.com\/dp_photo_challenge\/on-the-way\/\" target=\"_blank\">challenge<\/a> to photograph something on the way to somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, for the first time in a long time, my son and I met for morning tea in a caf\u00e9, and on our way back to the car I caught sight of some writing engraved into the concrete as we stepped up on a kerb. I stooped to take a photo, and at that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=7213\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On the way&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[579,20],"tags":[775,41,7,8,21,776,777],"class_list":["post-7213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canberra","category-my-photos","tag-autumn-leaves","tag-photo","tag-photography","tag-photos-2","tag-postaday","tag-weekly-photo-challenge-on-the-way","tag-you-are-beautiful"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}