{"id":2996,"date":"2012-05-20T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2012\/05\/dragonfly\/"},"modified":"2012-05-20T08:00:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T12:00:56","slug":"dragonfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2012\/05\/dragonfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragonfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent radio interview, a book author paraphrased a haiku by the poet Issa and it struck me as a perfect metaphor for apprehending the natural world:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I look in the dragonfly&#39;s eye<\/em><br \/><em>and see the mountain over my shoulder.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b0167669f6c96970b-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"037\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b0167669f6c96970b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b0167669f6c96970b-500wi.jpg\" title=\"037\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent radio interview, a book author paraphrased a haiku by the poet Issa and it struck me as a perfect metaphor for apprehending the natural world: I look in the dragonfly&#39;s eyeand see the mountain over my shoulder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-nature","category-new-paltz-ny","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996","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=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}