{"id":1099,"date":"2014-12-02T22:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T03:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2014-12-02T22:28:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T03:28:34","slug":"ironic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1099","title":{"rendered":"Ironic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Untitled by Karen and Bob Richardson, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/therichardsons\/15747539308\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7493\/15747539308_d3fb71a5d6_m.jpg?resize=177%2C133&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"177\" height=\"133\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>It is late but I am determined to post a blog entry. I drove back and forth to DC today and was reminded of the life of a commuter. As I sat in traffic, I was listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/thedianerehmshow.org\/shows\/2014-12-02\/environmental_outlook_george_monbiot_feral\">Diane Rehm interview George Monbiot<\/a>, author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Feral-Searching-Enchantment-Frontiers-Rewilding\/dp\/1846147484\">Feral<\/a><\/em>, who advocates for &#8220;rewilding&#8221; the world:\u00a0&#8220;It\u2019s the process of freeing ecosystems from human intervention and allowing them \u2014 in some cases for the first time in millennia \u2014 to resume their natural ecological processes. Monbiot makes the case that returning ecosystems to the wild will not only benefit nature, but humans as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I snapped a picture of the view around me as I listened to Monbiot describe his encounter with a dolphin off the coast of Wales. I was reminded of my own experiences in the wild and thought about my favorite Wendell Berry poem, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poem\/171140\">&#8220;The Peace of Wild Things&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For your enjoyment, Monbiot&#8217;s TED talk:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed-ssl.ted.com\/talks\/george_monbiot_for_more_wonder_rewild_the_world.html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is late but I am determined to post a blog entry. I drove back and forth to DC today and was reminded of the life of a commuter. As I sat in traffic, I was listening to Diane Rehm interview George Monbiot, author of Feral, who advocates for &#8220;rewilding&#8221; the world:\u00a0&#8220;It\u2019s the process of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1099\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ironic<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4X3L0-ironic","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1102,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}