{"id":972,"date":"2016-06-04T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/?p=972"},"modified":"2016-05-27T08:51:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T08:51:30","slug":"k-is-for-knarled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/?p=972","title":{"rendered":"K is for Knarled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\">I was walking mindfully and looking closely in Woodbrooke&#8217;s garden recently, when I came across a tree with beautifully knarled bark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/knarled1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-973 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/knarled1-e1464338806220.jpg\" alt=\"knarled1\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/knarled1-e1464338806220.jpg 424w, http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/knarled1-e1464338806220-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">It set me thinking \u2013 what makes this knarled bark so beautiful? It&#8217;s caused by injury, it&#8217;s a response to damage, and yet it produces something we can perceive as beautiful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/knarled2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-974 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/knarled2-e1464338873895.jpg\" alt=\"knarled2\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/knarled2-e1464338873895.jpg 424w, http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/knarled2-e1464338873895-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Is this a metaphor? Have the injuries (physical, mental, spiritual) that I&#8217;ve received in life led me to grow something beautiful in response, or some ugly protection?<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/knarled3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-975 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/knarled3-e1464338918188.jpg\" alt=\"knarled3\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/knarled3-e1464338918188.jpg 424w, http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/knarled3-e1464338918188-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Some of both I suspect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking mindfully and looking closely in Woodbrooke&#8217;s garden recently, when I came across a tree with beautifully knarled bark. It set me thinking \u2013 what makes this knarled bark so beautiful? It&#8217;s caused by injury, it&#8217;s a response &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/?p=972\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}