{"id":31449,"date":"2012-12-04T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=31449"},"modified":"2012-12-03T09:36:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T14:36:01","slug":"morning-eye-candy-lifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/12\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-lifting\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Lifting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I feel like fall is the ideal time for sitting and observing&#8211;for taking it in without having to fill the empty space with idle chatter. Which leads me to today&#8217;s mission: find a bench somewhere in the Garden, and spend at least 20 minutes sitting quietly. As my high school guitar teacher used to call it, see if you can &#8220;lift&#8221; the individual components of nature&#8217;s soundtrack; that is, isolate a single bird&#8217;s song, or one tree&#8217;s creaking branches among the rest. Listen to the wind a while.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MEC-Courtyard-in-Fall.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"31450\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/12\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-lifting\/attachment\/mec-courtyard-in-fall\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MEC-Courtyard-in-Fall.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2500,1664\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D700&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1353929181&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;56&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.02&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Conservatory Courtyard\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MEC-Courtyard-in-Fall-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MEC-Courtyard-in-Fall-1024x681.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-31450\" title=\"Conservatory Courtyard\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MEC-Courtyard-in-Fall-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MEC-Courtyard-in-Fall-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MEC-Courtyard-in-Fall-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MEC-Courtyard-in-Fall.jpg 2500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find a bench, and sit quietly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":31450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[952,146],"tags":[4671,2904,449,1512],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MEC-Courtyard-in-Fall.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-8bf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31452,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31449\/revisions\/31452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}