{"id":11440,"date":"2019-05-21T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailycoyote.net\/index.php\/?p=11440"},"modified":"2019-05-19T11:25:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T15:25:16","slug":"off-the-beaten-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/?p=11440","title":{"rendered":"Off The Beaten Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/offthebeatenpath2019W.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[11440]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11435\" alt=\"offthebeatenpath2019W\" src=\"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/offthebeatenpath2019W.jpg\" width=\"495\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/offthebeatenpath2019W.jpg 495w, https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/offthebeatenpath2019W-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSometimes, I really struggle with coming up with titles for Charlie&#8217;s pictures. This was one of those &#8211; I simply could NOT think of a good title for this photo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mike came into my office and I said, &#8220;I need a title for this! What is the title?!&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd he said, &#8220;Off the beaten path.&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd I said, &#8220;But&#8230; is it really? He&#8217;s only like a foot off the beaten path.&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd we both started laughing because we are sleep deprived.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And then I thought about it a little more, and realized, in this culture that desperately wants\/needs us all to keep in line and tries to coerce us to stay on a path prescribed by others, being just a few steps off the beaten path can be an accomplishment. And that is worth celebrating. And thus, the title was decided.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">photo taken April 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, I really struggle with coming up with titles for Charlie&#8217;s pictures. This was one of those &#8211; I simply could NOT think of a good title for this photo. Mike came into my office and I said, &#8220;I need a title for this! What is the title?!&#8221; And he said, &#8220;Off the beaten path.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11448,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11440\/revisions\/11448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}