{"id":780,"date":"2025-09-19T19:35:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T19:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/?p=780"},"modified":"2025-09-19T20:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:20:19","slug":"musings-along-the-rail-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/musings-along-the-rail-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Musings Along the Rail Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The trail stretches ahead of me…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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sometimes with a shadowed bend ahead…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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sometimes a bright vista in the distance…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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with reflections from above…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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and unexpected beauty beside the trail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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a tree clinging tight to the rock…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Resting spots along the way…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

with encouraging words from those who’ve walked this trail before…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I haven’t known any of these people, but their words tell me something of them and invite me to sit a spell and ponder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looking back, I’ve come a long way…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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with more trail stretching on ahead.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I wonder what words I would want on my bench…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

with encouraging words from those who’ve walked this trail before… I haven’t known any of these people, but their words tell me something of them and invite me to sit a spell and ponder. I wonder what words I would want on my bench…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[153,85],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-prayer","tag-dutchess-rail-trail","tag-rest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}