{"id":58,"date":"2007-03-25T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-25T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tracyyoung.info\/writing\/2007\/03\/25\/photo-hunt-50-empty\/"},"modified":"2007-03-25T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-25T18:05:00","slug":"photo-hunt-50-empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tracyyoung.info\/writing\/2007\/03\/25\/photo-hunt-50-empty\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Hunt 50: Empty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_gL4xY8s7mqw\/Rg_1riHjxTI\/AAAAAAAAAAo\/is4YOKJmwt0\/s1600-h\/box.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_gL4xY8s7mqw\/Rg_1riHjxTI\/AAAAAAAAAAo\/is4YOKJmwt0\/s400\/box.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048523835547305266\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>I have an ongoing love\/hate relationship with possessions and periodically vow to rid myself of anything that&#8217;s not absolutely essential. The problem is, what I consider essential changes. For instance, when I came back from a two week camping trip in Wyoming, I thought I could get rid of all my pots and pans and get by, as I had in the mountains, with one bowl, a fork, and a Swiss Army knife. Then I decided I would start a juicing regimen and cook a lot of rice dishes.<\/p>\n<p>I go through similar phases with gear: the saddles, riding boots and tack were purged to make room for motorcycle jackets\/helmets\/tools which were purged to make room for the yoga mats, bolsters, blankets and blocks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m even worse with books.<\/p>\n<p>But I continue to long for emptiness, the pure space that would allow me to collect my thoughts, find one book to read, and the favorite t-shirt to wear day after day.  And so I find an empty cardboard box, dump out the cat, and make yet another trip to the Salvation Army store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an ongoing love\/hate relationship with possessions and periodically vow to rid myself of anything that&#8217;s not absolutely essential. The problem is, what I consider essential changes. For instance, when I came back from a two week camping trip in Wyoming, I thought I could get rid of all my pots and pans and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-photohunt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyyoung.info\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyyoung.info\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyyoung.info\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyyoung.info\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyyoung.info\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyyoung.info\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyyoung.info\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyyoung.info\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyyoung.info\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}