{"id":3310,"date":"2013-06-26T10:36:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T02:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=3310"},"modified":"2013-06-30T21:55:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T13:55:20","slug":"big-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/26\/big-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130626-019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3260\" alt=\"20130626 019\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130626-019-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130626-019-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130626-019.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I listened to my inner voice this morning. \u00a0I normally drive round the property to give Shorty a good run in the morning, but today I swithered and swayed, but then I grabbed my camera and we went for a long walk. \u00a0 I was rewarded with the closest pics of a kangaroo in 4 years.<\/p>\n<p>The big male bounded from the forest to the creekline, sat by the fence then in one bound was up and over and off into the bush.<\/p>\n<p>I read a post about &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/474927719248895\/permalink\/479672225441111\/\" target=\"_blank\">Donkey Ears<\/a>&#8221; by artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apiferafarm.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Katherine Dunn<\/a>\u00a0which summed up this exactly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130626-028.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3259\" alt=\"20130626 028\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130626-028-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130626-028-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130626-028.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>We all have the equivalent of donkey ears in our lives, pointing us to profound moments and simple beauties, inspiring painting, poem, or song&#8230; We work hard but live simply, and even I have to make a choice to stop, and look.\u00a0\u00a0I wonder how many inspirations I&#8217;ve missed that might have ended up in a painting, simply because I was going about my day impatiently, not taking time to stop and observe.\u00a0As I said, I must be more &#8220;donkey&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I listened to my inner voice this morning. \u00a0I normally drive round the property to give Shorty a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[20,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130626-019.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310"}],"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=3310"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3320,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions\/3320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}