{"id":784,"date":"2016-06-18T16:23:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T20:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/?p=784"},"modified":"2016-06-21T21:51:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T01:51:32","slug":"dragonflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"Dragonflies"},"content":{"rendered":"

July 30, 2010<\/p>\n

Dearest Maya,<\/p>\n

We shared a very wondrous moment.\u00a0 You and I were floating on tubes across the road on the lake.\u00a0 Dragonflies were everywhere.<\/p>\n

Upon closer examination, we saw that they were stuck together.\u00a0 Yes, they were mating.\u00a0 When we slowed down our process even more, we witnessed little pieces of seaweed, or lakeweed floating on the lake.\u00a0 Pairs of dragonflies found themselves to these floating lakeweeds.\u00a0 Anyone of these lakeweeds could have six to ten pairs perched on it mating.<\/p>\n

We slowed down even more, being as still as we could be, aside from any drifts in the lake water.\u00a0 There we were, silently floating, witnessing something so simple, sacred and magical.\u00a0 It was a treasured moment, indeed.<\/p>\n

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A photo of a heron at the lake September 2015, and Maya doing her favorite trapeze trick, “birds-nest”, in July of 2010.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

July 30, 2010 Dearest Maya, We shared a very wondrous moment.\u00a0 You and I were floating on tubes across the road on the lake.\u00a0 Dragonflies were everywhere. Upon closer examination, we saw that they were stuck together.\u00a0 Yes, they were mating.\u00a0 When we slowed down our process even more, we witnessed little pieces of seaweed,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p720L0-cE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}