{"id":24,"date":"2019-12-01T19:23:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T19:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/?p=24"},"modified":"2022-10-30T18:45:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T18:45:19","slug":"a-december-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"A December walk."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s a steep uphill climb and the trees have shed their autumn blaze of colour. A family of hares are grazing on the edges of the newly ploughed hilltop field, gazing down on the cold village below. Wary of my approach, ears flattened, bodys pressed into a temporay scrape in the long grass.As I approach they scud and jink away, long legs flying. The ploughed earth is shaded into browns, yellows and flinty white and the hares melts back into the winter landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/download-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34\" width=\"584\" height=\"392\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been in the valley now for three weeks, every day bringing a new walk.  As autumn slides into winter there&#8217;s a new urgency and search for signs of hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DSC06038-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DSC06038-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DSC06038-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DSC06038-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DSC06038-2-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DSC06038-2.jpg 1417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The devil&#8217;s punchbowl in winter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Returning to London for the winter solstice and New Year and a shared exhibition with Just Glass at the Espacio gallery in January 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a steep uphill climb and the trees have shed their autumn blaze of colour. A family of hares are grazing on the edges of the newly ploughed hilltop field, gazing down on the cold village below. Wary of my approach, ears flattened, bodys pressed into a temporay scrape in the long grass.As I approach&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/?p=24\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A December walk.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-blogs","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}