{"id":17540,"date":"2016-06-09T20:29:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T20:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=17540"},"modified":"2016-06-09T20:41:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T20:41:36","slug":"road-map-to-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=17540","title":{"rendered":"Road Map to the Universe……"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Strange thoughts come over you when you are photographing the most minute of nature’s treasures. \u00a0As I walked along Bandon Beach concentrating on what I saw on the sands, scanning very small areas while walking slowly and seeking for something graphic, something \u00a0interesting, I saw this black rock and lines in the sand. \u00a0As I looked through the lens adjusting my angle it became aware to me that this small 4″ X 6″ landscape was a microcosm of our world.<\/p>\n

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I think this must be how simply and at the same time complex God must view us in this world. Complicated and convoluted, but also beautifully simple. \u00a0We can choose to see our world as impossibly complex, or realize that in the fundamentals we can find the real meaning of life.<\/p>\n

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This little scene is really simple, and so is life; faith, family, friends and the joys of life. We over complicate our lives with stuff, money, fears, and misplaced priorities, the same thing that messes up a nice photograph, messes up our lives, too many subjects, not enough light!<\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Strange thoughts come over you when you are photographing the most minute of nature’s treasures. \u00a0As I walked along Bandon Beach concentrating on what I saw on the sands, scanning very small areas while walking slowly and seeking for something graphic, something \u00a0interesting, I saw this black rock and lines in the sand. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17540"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17548,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17540\/revisions\/17548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}