{"id":187,"date":"2013-01-06T23:45:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T15:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2013-01-09T13:12:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T05:12:16","slug":"time-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/06\/time-flies\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Flies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013_Jan-004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-182\" alt=\"2013_Jan 004\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013_Jan-004-199x300.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013_Jan-004-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013_Jan-004.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>Waking in the night and seeing the waning moon, I was\u00a0surprised\u00a0to see how quickly another week had passed. \u00a0I love the routine of living with the land, but time does seem to fly. \u00a0The days of the week don&#8217;t matter, the animals need feed, water and attention daily and it helps (us and them) to do it the same time. \u00a0Above the daily routine lie more basic cycles: hours of daylight; phases of the moon; the lengthening days leading to the longest day; the slowdown as we head to the shortest; and the changing seasons. \u00a0Across Australia the indigenous peoples recognise a range of different seasons based on their climate zone &#8211; which varies widely from tropical north to arid desert zones. \u00a0The Noongar aboriginals in the South West of Australia marked their time with <a href=\"http:\/\/spectaclestours.com.au\/download\/nyoongar_seasons.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">6 seasons<\/a> related to the weather and available foods. It seems a much more sensible option for this area than the Northern Hemisphere 4 seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waking in the night and seeing the waning moon, I was\u00a0surprised\u00a0to see how quickly another week had passed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beauty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013_Jan-004.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}