{"id":3899,"date":"2014-04-04T04:03:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T09:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/?page_id=3899"},"modified":"2014-09-09T20:59:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T01:59:25","slug":"the-old-naturalists-journey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/?page_id=3899","title":{"rendered":"The Old Naturalist&#8217;s Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Wade.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3901\" src=\"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Wade.gif\" alt=\"Wade\" width=\"270\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;d like to welcome you to my blog site, <strong>The Old Naturalist<\/strong>. My name is Larry Wade, and I&#8217;ve had a passionate affair with the Planet Earth for most of my life. I have a deep and abiding respect for this amazing rock-and-water covered sphere where life expresses itself in millions of different forms, and in a set of interconnected systems.<\/p>\n<p>I also have deep concerns about how we are treating our home. We have a lot of work to do to preserve the beauty and and living things on our planet.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons why I continue this blog is my desire to help readers develop a relationship with the Earth. My personal mission can be summed up:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A Voice for the Earth.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Honoring Life and Seeking Beauty<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Connecting, Learning, Healing<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Earth First.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s my hope that you&#8217;ll find something in here&#8211;words, pictures, activities, poetry, something&#8211;that will stir something deep inside you and make you want to get outside. Take a walk. Look up. Look down. Listen. Close your eyes. Get dirty. Get wet. Re-introduce yourself to this amazing place we too often take for granted. Fall in love with Nature. Pass that love along to someone else&#8211;especially a child.<\/p>\n<p>And let me know what you find.<\/p>\n<p>Larry Wade<br \/>\n<em>The Old Naturalist<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to welcome you to my blog site, The Old Naturalist. My name is Larry Wade, and I&#8217;ve had a passionate affair with the Planet Earth for most of my life. I have a deep and abiding respect for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/?page_id=3899\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3899","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4554,"href":"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3899\/revisions\/4554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}