{"id":7026,"date":"2021-05-19T06:30:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T13:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=7026"},"modified":"2021-05-19T06:30:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T13:30:44","slug":"feeding-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/feeding-ducks\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeding Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7026\" data-postid=\"7026\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7026 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>It was a bright weekday morning, just past 7. I was strolling through a park before a volunteer session at a food pantry. My route would take me past a creek, athletic fields, ducks, geese, trees, squirrels and a homeless encampment with several piles of garbage that boggled the mind with its weird variety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something caught my eye as I walked along the former wading pool now turned duck pond posted with signs telling people not to feed the birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To my left, I espied an older woman wearing pajama bottoms and a hoodie tossing bread to ducks in the pond and the grass. There must have been 15 or so ducks following her as she walked in circles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even from a distance, I could see her smiling and talking to the ducks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was obvious to me that she was living in the homeless encampment I would be traversing in a matter of seconds. Regular morning walkers in my upscale neighborhood don&#8217;t dress like this and they certainly follow the rules when it comes to feeding the birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My heart stirred at the woman&#8217;s defiance of the rules. She was out of her tent or RV or pallet shanty in the early morning on a fine day and communing with birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tiny moments like this keep me buoyed, and inspire hope. I report them to you and others via conversation in the belief that such moments are worth sharing, and can serve as a foundation for contemplation and yes, even concerted action.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a bright weekday morning, just past 7. I was strolling through a park before a volunteer session at a food pantry. My route would take me past a creek, athletic fields, ducks, geese, trees, squirrels and a homeless encampment with several piles of garbage that boggled the mind with its weird variety. Something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","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\/7026","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=7026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7029,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7026\/revisions\/7029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}