{"id":3305,"date":"2013-10-09T19:16:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T23:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3305"},"modified":"2013-10-09T19:16:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T23:16:22","slug":"when-were-not-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3305","title":{"rendered":"When We&#8217;re Not Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So what do we do when we&#8217;re not writing? We work, we see our families, we deal with the day to day. We drive to work. And that&#8217;s where today&#8217;s inspiration comes from&#8230;just a few bits of beauty that accompany me as I journey to my day job everyday. As I pass these things, and the mountains that surround them, I am simply in awe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Red-Barn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3306 lazyload\" alt=\"Red Barn\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Red-Barn.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Red-Barn.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Red-Barn-300x225.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/480;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3306\" alt=\"Red Barn\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Red-Barn.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Red-Barn.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Red-Barn-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So here is the first of a few photo essays&#8230;or photo sketches, if you like, of where I am now, and what might be feeding my work next. And more importantly, feeding my life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roadside-Flowers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3307 lazyload\" alt=\"Roadside Flowers\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roadside-Flowers.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roadside-Flowers.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roadside-Flowers-300x225.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/480;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3307\" alt=\"Roadside Flowers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roadside-Flowers.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roadside-Flowers.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roadside-Flowers-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My little camera phone can&#8217;t do this place justice. Maybe, someday, my words will be able to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roadside-Trees.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3308 lazyload\" alt=\"Roadside Trees\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roadside-Trees.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roadside-Trees.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roadside-Trees-300x225.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/480;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3308\" alt=\"Roadside Trees\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roadside-Trees.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roadside-Trees.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roadside-Trees-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what do we do when we&#8217;re not writing? We work, we see our families, we deal with the day to day. We drive to work. And that&#8217;s where today&#8217;s inspiration comes from&#8230;just a few bits of beauty that accompany me as I journey to my day job everyday. As I pass these things, and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3305\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When We&#8217;re Not Writing<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3309,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions\/3309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}