{"id":3042,"date":"2011-05-09T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2011\/05\/worth-the-journey\/"},"modified":"2011-05-09T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T13:00:21","slug":"worth-the-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2011\/05\/worth-the-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth The Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Henry David Thoreau&#39;s observations about the singular beauty of an ice-covered and sunlit tree might well be applied to any number of natural phenomena, like the delicate and transitory tree blossoms I encountered along the banks of Lake Mohonk.&#0160; Thoreau writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>Many times I thought that if the particular tree&#8230; were the only one like it in the country, it would be worth the journey across the continent to see it&#8230;. But instead of being confined to a single tree, this wonder was as cheap and common as the air itself.<\/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\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b014e88537954970d-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"TreeBloom\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b014e88537954970d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b014e88537954970d-500wi.jpg\" title=\"TreeBloom\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry David Thoreau&#39;s observations about the singular beauty of an ice-covered and sunlit tree might well be applied to any number of natural phenomena, like the delicate and transitory tree blossoms I encountered along the banks of Lake Mohonk.&#0160; Thoreau writes: Many times I thought that if the particular tree&#8230; were the only one like [&hellip;]<\/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-3042","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\/3042","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=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}