{"id":2609,"date":"2024-12-24T18:58:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T23:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2024\/12\/extravagant-gesture\/"},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:58:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T23:58:10","slug":"extravagant-gesture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2024\/12\/extravagant-gesture\/","title":{"rendered":"Extravagant Gesture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Annie Dillard&#39;s &quot;Pilgrim At Tinker Creek&quot;:<\/p>\n<p><em>At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairie on fire was a well-known signal that meant \u201cCome down to the water.\u201d It was an extravagant gesture but we can\u2019t do less. If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b02c8d3c766fa200c-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"3116\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b02c8d3c766fa200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b02c8d3c766fa200c-500wi.jpg\" title=\"3116\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Annie Dillard&#39;s &quot;Pilgrim At Tinker Creek&quot;: At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairie on fire was a well-known signal that meant \u201cCome down to the water.\u201d It was an extravagant gesture but we can\u2019t do less. If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}