{"id":2237,"date":"2009-03-04T16:44:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T21:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2009-03-04T16:44:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T21:44:26","slug":"on-a-vast-open-expanse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2237","title":{"rendered":"On A Vast Open Expanse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I look outside, and I think I could fall into the sky.<\/p>\n<p>There are no clouds.  Just sky that reaches forever.<\/p>\n<p>When it&#8217;s like this at night, I can <i>feel<\/i> forever.  The sky is <i>so<\/i> dark and deep, the stars are <i>so<\/i> inviting.  I can <i>feel<\/i> the vastness of the cosmos.  I can feel how insignificant I am compared to planets and stars and galaxies.  As the eyes adjust to the darkness, as dimmer stars reveal themselves, in that moment, I can feel <i>everything<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The canopy of blue today, however?<\/p>\n<p>Vast, open, expansive.  The sky is <i>so<\/i> large.  I just want to fly.  I want to fall upward and soar through the sky.<\/p>\n<p>That I&#8217;m listening to the <i>LOVE<\/i> version of &#8220;While My Guitar Gently Weeps&#8221; right now has nothing to do with this feeling. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I look outside, and I think I could fall into the sky. There are no clouds. Just sky that reaches forever. When it&#8217;s like this at night, I can feel forever. The sky is so dark and deep, the stars are so inviting. I can feel the vastness of the cosmos. I can feel how<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2237\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On A Vast Open Expanse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[4093],"class_list":["post-2237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}