{"id":2311,"date":"2019-04-11T16:41:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T16:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2019-07-21T16:42:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T16:42:49","slug":"tension-is-rarely-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/11\/tension-is-rarely-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Tension is rarely a good thing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 in the workplace, in the home, in social settings \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6\ntension is something that is generally frowned upon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But yesterday I came across it while on a work break at\nLettuce Lake. A flower from a Button Bush had fallen into the waters and while\nscience can successfully explain away each resulting shape and shimmer, I\nchoose to look at it with different eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I was the hundredth visitor to that specific place, I am\nconfident in saying that I am likely the only one that took the time to truly\nexamine the scene in front of me. And isn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t that a shame?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This wondrous world we live in is continually offering up\nmoments like this if we only take the time to stop and open our eyes and hearts\nto them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stopping to smell the roses is a familiar theme to my\nemails, I know. But the reason I stepped away from the office was that it has\nbeen a grueling work week. Not a bad one but one filled with tension \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 and\ncamera in hand, this is how I chose to relieve it. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So strange to think that one tension helped to relieve the\nother!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope you have a wonderful weekend!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"blob:http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/70bdfea1-8fec-4541-985b-4991994ec9f1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p9761-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2321\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p9761-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p9761-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p9761-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p9761-1200x799.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p9761.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 in the workplace, in the home, in social settings \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 tension is something that is generally frowned upon. But yesterday I came across it while on a work break at Lettuce Lake. A flower from a Button Bush had fallen into the waters and while science can successfully explain away each resulting shape and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/11\/tension-is-rarely-a-good-thing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tension is rarely a good thing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2331,"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions\/2331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}