{"id":2467,"date":"2026-05-05T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2026-05-02T14:10:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:10:44","slug":"one-minute-of-your-time-please-325","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/?p=2467","title":{"rendered":"One Minute of Your Time Please"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just got back from a walk along a local greenway that winds parallel to a river and through a wooded area.  Several other walkers passed by from the other direction.  All greeted me with a big smile and a &#8220;good morning&#8221;.  There&#8217;s something about strolling through God&#8217;s creations that puts people at peace.  Sets them in a good mood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe it&#8217;s just getting away from traffic and social media bickering and financial pressures.  Walking is free.  The squirrels and chipmunks and birds make good company.  They don&#8217;t seem to care about the world&#8217;s problems.   The babbling waters whisper that, whatever you&#8217;re going through, this too shall pass.  Just go with the flow.  Trust in the consistency of divine creation.  It all works out in the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next time life gets you down, go for a walk in the woods.  You&#8217;ll get the message. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just got back from a walk along a local greenway that winds parallel to a river and through a wooded area. Several other walkers passed by from the other direction. All greeted me with a big smile and a &#8220;good morning&#8221;. There&#8217;s something about strolling through God&#8217;s creations that puts people at peace. Sets them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/?p=2467\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Minute of Your Time Please<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2468,"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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kenlassblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-18.png?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7GXkt-DN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2469,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions\/2469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}