{"id":855,"date":"2008-01-23T07:24:55","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T15:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/23\/vernas-water-zen\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T07:24:55","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T15:24:55","slug":"vernas-water-zen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/23\/vernas-water-zen\/","title":{"rendered":"Verna&#8217;s Water Zen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"right\">\n<script src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/video\/water-zen.php\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"dvdlist\">Gaze and Relax<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>You may have noticed the &#8220;Verna&#8217;s Water Zen&#8221; widget in the sidebar. This is the story behind that. <\/p>\n<p>Verna likes the light patterns that water makes when sunlight dances through it. Whether in a swimming pool, in a river, in a marina channel or in a shallow harbor, it doesn&#8217;t matter, she likes the shimmering ripples.<\/p>\n<p>Last September (2007), we spent our anniversary, as usual, on Catalina Island. We go to Avalon every year since that&#8217;s where we got married. While we were there, we took a lot of pictures and a few movies. <\/p>\n<p>While we were waiting on the Green Pier for our glass-bottom boat tour. I leaned over the rail and captured this short sequence of the rippling water in the harbor. I used my little Canon A710 IS digital camera in AVI mode. I pointed the camera straight down and captured about ten seconds of video. When I showed the preview to Verna, she said it was relaxing like &#8216;Water Zen.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>So, when we got home, I converted the short video to Flash&reg; and popped it in the sidebar as a remembrance to our time in Avalon and an opportunity to &#8216;gaze and relax.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaze and Relax You may have noticed the &#8220;Verna&#8217;s Water Zen&#8221; widget in the sidebar. This is the story behind that. Verna likes the light patterns&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}