{"id":1612,"date":"2004-08-26T17:08:41","date_gmt":"2004-08-26T21:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2022-10-09T14:15:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T18:15:07","slug":"wide-open-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1612","title":{"rendered":"Wide open spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michaeltotten.com\/\">Michael Totten&#8217;s got some breathtaking pictures up right now<\/a>.  God, just go over there and keep scrolling.  It&#8217;s been years since I drove across the country &#8230; it&#8217;s been years since I&#8217;ve seen a sky that big.<\/p>\n<p>When my boyfriend and I drove cross country (in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=672\">soon-to-be-doomed Westfalia<\/a>) &#8211; I was particularly blown away by North Dakota.  North Dakota filled me with an exhilaration that I can only describe as spiritual.  It was a transcendent landscape.  I&#8217;m a New England girl, a sea-level kind of girl.  Only at the ocean can we see all the way to the horizon.  Everywhere else you&#8217;ve got wooded hills, and forested streets, winding up and down &#8230; It&#8217;s beautiful, but you do not get the perspective.  North Dakota was a blasted-open landscape, big land, big sky, and I felt very very small and also very very huge &#8211; all at the same time.  I loved that state &#8211; I&#8217;d love to go back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Totten&#8217;s got some breathtaking pictures up right now. God, just go over there and keep scrolling. It&#8217;s been years since I drove across the country &#8230; it&#8217;s been years since I&#8217;ve seen a sky that big. When my boyfriend &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1612\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178058,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions\/178058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}