{"id":6713,"date":"2021-01-31T07:14:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T15:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6713"},"modified":"2021-01-31T07:14:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T15:14:04","slug":"the-permanent-impermanence-of-driftwood-forts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/the-permanent-impermanence-of-driftwood-forts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Permanent Impermanence of Driftwood Forts"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6713\" data-postid=\"6713\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6713 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>After a six week absence from my complex of 17 driftwood forts, I returned to find every fort vanished. I smiled at that. I have always embraced the beautiful and permanent impermanence of building driftwood forts, mostly for the metaphorical and cosmic value, but also because it means I get to build all over again and work up a sweat in body and mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So there I was and almost all the wood I&#8217;d used to make the complex had vanished, too. But I scraped for scraps and ended up building this fort with a brisk wind in my face on a gray morning with a sprinkle of two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I walked away from the fort, I knew it wouldn&#8217;t last another hour because the tide was rushing in tall and white. I have always known that about every fort and apply that lesson to many aspects of my life.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a six week absence from my complex of 17 driftwood forts, I returned to find every fort vanished. I smiled at that. I have always embraced the beautiful and permanent impermanence of building driftwood forts, mostly for the metaphorical and cosmic value, but also because it means I get to build all over again [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,5,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-driftwood-forts","category-meditations","category-oregon-beaches","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\/6713","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=6713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6716,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713\/revisions\/6716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}