{"id":1006,"date":"2012-01-26T00:14:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T04:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/james\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2012-01-26T20:25:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T00:25:06","slug":"just-a-climb-away-from-a-great-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/james\/2012\/01\/26\/just-a-climb-away-from-a-great-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a climb away from a great time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful, wonderful day outside.\u00a0 Given the assignment to find a reflection point, I knew right away I wanted somewhere off campus.\u00a0 I love the Richmond campus, but I love exploring and seeing new things.\u00a0 I think that is why I picked my location.<\/p>\n<p>While I am sitting up in this huge tree I see the water and the estate. I just think about how beautiful everything looks and begin to reflect on my day.<\/p>\n<p>I had my first Chinese test of the semester this morning.\u00a0 I was very stressed and upset with my performance on the test and was not in a very good mood.\u00a0 Fortunately, that all changed when I got outside.\u00a0 I begin to take in some deep, relaxing breaths and almost immediately begin to calm down.<\/p>\n<p>Realizing the Chinese test is behind me, and feeling much better now, I look around and see I have made it half way up the tree.\u00a0 My heart is beating faster than usual and I am unsure on high I should climb.\u00a0 I decide right then and there I will try to climb higher each time I come back.\u00a0 I love challenging myself and forgetting about the regular worries of life.\u00a0 It lets me feel free.<\/p>\n<p>While I listen to the birds singing and the tress blowing in the wind, I look out and can sort of see the water.\u00a0 All of this puts a smile on my face.\u00a0 Even though I can hear the train go by in the distance, and the cars are driving by, it does not seem to matter because I am surrounded by the wilderness and am cocooned in this magnificent tree.<\/p>\n<p>WHAT A WONDERFUL WAY TO SPEND A COUPLE HOURS OF MY DAY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful, wonderful day outside.\u00a0 Given the assignment to find a reflection point, I knew right away I wanted somewhere off campus.\u00a0 I love the Richmond campus, but I love exploring and seeing new things.\u00a0 I think that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/james\/2012\/01\/26\/just-a-climb-away-from-a-great-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection-point"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}