{"id":39999,"date":"2018-11-01T06:19:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T11:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39999"},"modified":"2018-11-01T06:19:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T11:19:47","slug":"wake-up-stop-dreaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39999","title":{"rendered":"Wake up. Stop dreaming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<header id=\"masthead\" class=\"site-header\" role=\"banner\">\n<div class=\"navigation-top site-navigation-fixed\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<nav id=\"site-navigation\" class=\"main-navigation\" role=\"navigation\" aria-label=\"Top Menu\">\n<div class=\"menu-top-menu-container\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-twentyseventeen-featured-image size-twentyseventeen-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.animasoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sunrise.jpg?resize=662%2C497&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.animasoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sunrise.jpg?w=662&amp;ssl=1 662w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.animasoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sunrise.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"662\" height=\"497\" data-attachment-id=\"1677\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.animasoul.org\/2018\/10\/31\/wake-up-stop-dreaming\/sunrise\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.animasoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sunrise.jpg?fit=662%2C497&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"662,497\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sunrise\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.animasoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sunrise.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.animasoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sunrise.jpg?fit=525%2C394&amp;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"site-content-contain\">\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"site-content\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div id=\"primary\" class=\"content-area\">\n<article id=\"post-1659\" class=\"post-1659 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-act-inspire category-sustainable-living\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animasoul.org\/2018\/10\/31\/wake-up-stop-dreaming\/\">Wake up. Stop dreaming!<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Wake up, stop dreaming<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sun is in the sky again<br \/>\nThere\u2019s a hole in the ocean<br \/>\nAnd water\u2019s pouring through.<br \/>\nOh, wake up stop dreaming<br \/>\nAnd wipe the sleep from your eyes.<br \/>\nAre you frightened of heights?<br \/>\nAre you falling\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>-Wang Chung song lyrics.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1660 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.animasoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aldo-leopold.jpg?resize=310%2C308&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.animasoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aldo-leopold.jpg?w=156&amp;ssl=1 156w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.animasoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aldo-leopold.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.animasoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aldo-leopold.jpg?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"308\" data-attachment-id=\"1660\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.animasoul.org\/2018\/10\/31\/wake-up-stop-dreaming\/aldo-leopold\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.animasoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aldo-leopold.jpg?fit=156%2C155&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"156,155\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"aldo leopold\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.animasoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aldo-leopold.jpg?fit=156%2C155&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.animasoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aldo-leopold.jpg?fit=156%2C155&amp;ssl=1\" \/>\u201cOne of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/93532-one-of-the-penalties-of-an-ecological-education-is-that\">wrote Aldo Leopold<\/a> in <span id=\"quote_book_link_77292\">A Sand County Almanac <\/span>. \u201cMuch of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I fell in love with woods, pasture and creek living on my grandparent\u2019s farm when I was a child.\u00a0 After my family moved to the nearby small rural community I found my dose of \u2018nature\u2019 walking down a dirt road to the lake, where I would sit with my back against a giant cotton wood tree and look out over the water.\u00a0 Someone loaned me a copy of the geologic history of our community\u2019s lake.\u00a0 I was fascinated to learn that it was a remnant of the last ice age; the basin formed from an iceberg that calved off the retreating ice sheet and buried in sediment where it slowly melted over decades. \u00a0During a particularly bad drought in the \u201830\u2019s the shore had retreated and farmers plowed the lake sediment.\u00a0 The lake had existed here for thousands of years and we often found arrow heads in the nearby land.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wake up. Stop dreaming! Wake up, stop dreaming \u201cThe sun is in the sky again There\u2019s a hole in the ocean And water\u2019s pouring through. Oh, wake up stop dreaming And wipe the sleep from your eyes. Are you frightened of heights? Are you falling\u201d? -Wang Chung song lyrics. \u201cOne of the penalties of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,7],"tags":[16692,22732,234,16693],"class_list":["post-39999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-animasoul","tag-ecological-crises","tag-ecology","tag-jody-tishmack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40000,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39999\/revisions\/40000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}