{"id":7409,"date":"2021-10-21T07:11:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T14:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=7409"},"modified":"2021-10-21T07:11:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T14:11:23","slug":"golden-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/golden-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7409\" data-postid=\"7409\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7409 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>I stood at the base of Golden Falls and wasn&#8217;t really listening to the sound of this majestic wonder of Oregon nature. Instead, I was writing furiously in my mind a novel where Golden Falls would play a transforming role in the life of a homeless veteran of the Iraq War. Actually, I wasn&#8217;t only writing it in my mind, but was also taking notes and writing dialogue on a scratch pad. Everything was coming so fast I could barely keep up. I previously had the idea of a Christmas tale about this character and vaguely this setting, but then I took the long and narrow drive up the mysterious Millicoma River east of Coos Bay and saw the Silver and Golden Falls and <em>knew<\/em> I would expand the idea well beyond a mere tale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can&#8217;t recall a story exploding into my consciousness like this before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now to write it up and see where it goes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stood at the base of Golden Falls and wasn&#8217;t really listening to the sound of this majestic wonder of Oregon nature. Instead, I was writing furiously in my mind a novel where Golden Falls would play a transforming role in the life of a homeless veteran of the Iraq War. Actually, I wasn&#8217;t only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,74],"tags":[1129,13],"class_list":["post-7409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-oregon-coast_history","tag-golden-falls","tag-oregon-coast","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\/7409","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=7409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7412,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7409\/revisions\/7412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}