{"id":402,"date":"2010-10-03T10:30:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/?p=402"},"modified":"2010-10-03T10:30:04","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T13:00:04","slug":"a-place-like-no-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/2010\/10\/03\/a-place-like-no-other\/","title":{"rendered":"A Place Like no Other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img style=\"display:block;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/wpid-2010-10-03_09-57-49_588_Division-No.-1_new.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Everytime we come up to Bull Pond where the family summer home is located, I&#8217;m always reminded of how lucky I am to have a place like this.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is it an escape from city life and a personal space in nature, but it&#8217;s only 40 minutes away from our current home. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had this land for over 20 years and it&#8217;s come a long way. There&#8217;s always a project happening and something to do, but it&#8217;s established enough that you can have a comfy place to stay if the weather doesn&#8217;t hold.<\/p>\n<p>I practiced my meditation techniques from Thursday&#8217;s class down by the pond this morning . It went really well and I&#8217;m realistic that meditation takes time. It&#8217;s a new &#8220;place&#8221; for one&#8217;s self and you can&#8217;t just go barging on in expecting a life-changing experience . Here at Bull Pond though, I&#8217;ve always felt a special connection,\u00a0 so it was a lot easier to connect with myself and the environment around me.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a place to call your own? Maybe it&#8217;s not a summer home, but a place in your community that you hold dear; when you&#8217;re there everything feels right in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everytime we come up to Bull Pond where the family summer home is located, I&#8217;m always reminded of how lucky I am to have a place like this. Not only is it an escape from city life and a personal space in nature, but it&#8217;s only 40 minutes away from our current home. We&#8217;ve had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[48,59,26,21],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3zorl-6u","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}