{"id":157,"date":"2023-03-23T01:22:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T01:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virginvalleyopal.com\/?p=157"},"modified":"2023-03-23T01:22:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T01:22:30","slug":"time-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virginvalleyopal.com\/2023\/03\/23\/time-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"Time passes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Summer has closed the mines with the opening of schools again. Hunting season has kept people in the campground. The highway keeps trash on the margins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/virginvalleyopal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/adptsgnsm1.jpg?resize=525%2C394&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/virginvalleyopal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/adptsgnsm1.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/virginvalleyopal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/adptsgnsm1.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Decades later, still on the job.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The longer I stay out here, the more I understand why others only visit. Too quiet for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That and other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/virginvalleyopal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/P1020918.jpg?resize=525%2C394&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/virginvalleyopal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/P1020918.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/virginvalleyopal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/P1020918.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/virginvalleyopal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/P1020918.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/virginvalleyopal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/P1020918.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/virginvalleyopal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/P1020918.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Out where my keys are, I think&#8230;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/virginvalleyopal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/P1040903.jpg?resize=525%2C394&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/virginvalleyopal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/P1040903.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/virginvalleyopal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/P1040903.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Still not sure what im doing with this crystal limbcast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>So there goes the phone. One of the reasons I dont stay home that much. Leave a message as i dont use caller id.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer has closed the mines with the opening of schools again. Hunting season has kept people in the campground. The highway keeps trash on the margins. The longer I stay out here, the more I understand why others only visit. Too quiet for them. That and other things. So there goes the phone. One of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/virginvalleyopal.com\/2023\/03\/23\/time-passes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Time passes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virginvalleyopal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virginvalleyopal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virginvalleyopal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virginvalleyopal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virginvalleyopal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/virginvalleyopal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/virginvalleyopal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virginvalleyopal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virginvalleyopal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virginvalleyopal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}