{"id":2643,"date":"2013-02-11T10:18:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T15:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=2643"},"modified":"2013-02-11T10:18:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T15:18:15","slug":"shoveling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/shoveling\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoveling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2644\" alt=\"SnowPath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SnowPath.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SnowPath.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SnowPath-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>I like shoveling.\u00a0 I do.\u00a0 I like the rhythmic motions, the steady progress, the beauty of the white-and-blue snow.\u00a0 I like the sounds of the shovel scraping the pavers, and the plop of the snow when a load of it lands elsewhere.\u00a0 I like the frosty particles that float back to coat me when I throw a shovelful high and far.<\/p>\n<p>I like the feeling of working harmoniously together as a family, and letting my mind wander to old memories of snow forts from my childhood.\u00a0 I like walking down the cleared, tidy path when it\u2019s done, and the loose feeling of unaccustomed work in my muscles.<\/p>\n<p>I like going back inside to keep writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like shoveling.\u00a0 I do.\u00a0 I like the rhythmic motions, the steady progress, the beauty of the white-and-blue snow.\u00a0 I like the sounds of the shovel scraping the pavers, and the plop of the snow when a load of it lands elsewhere.\u00a0 I like the frosty particles that float back to coat me when I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2647,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}