{"id":10079,"date":"2026-08-30T07:11:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T14:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=10079"},"modified":"2026-08-30T07:11:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T14:11:57","slug":"recipe-for-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/recipe-for-gray\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipe For Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p>Ingredients:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One remote part of a continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One small mountain range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A direct hit of a black latitude and white longitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A perfect cloistering between ocean and mountains<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>creating a geographical claustrophobia,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>bringing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>clouds, rain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and a perpetual color<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that never appears in landscapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Directions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Live here<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look up<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walk into the gauze and steel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now it\u2019s slate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The seven shades,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>within the multitudes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of gray on the Oregon Coast,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sometimes beautiful,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sometimes something else,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>never sinister,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that leads us to the blacks and whites of our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why not live in grayscale?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much more interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients: One remote part of a continent. An ocean. One small mountain range. A direct hit of a black latitude and white longitude. A perfect cloistering between ocean and mountains creating a geographical claustrophobia, bringing clouds, rain and a perpetual color that never appears in landscapes. Directions: Live here Look up Walk into the gauze [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-oregon-coast_history","category-poetry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10082,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079\/revisions\/10082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}