{"id":47,"date":"2018-06-05T06:13:13","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T06:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/?p=47"},"modified":"2018-06-06T05:15:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T05:15:18","slug":"id-rather-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/2018\/06\/05\/id-rather-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;d rather be here than on a beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-47-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/files\/2018\/06\/Id-rather-be-here-than-on-a-beach.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/files\/2018\/06\/Id-rather-be-here-than-on-a-beach.mp3\">http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/files\/2018\/06\/Id-rather-be-here-than-on-a-beach.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>We take a walk and four wheeler ride with Dan on his property on Oregon&#8217;s North Coast.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-48\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/files\/2018\/05\/dan-riding-quad-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dan rides a four-wheeler around trails of his land finding new things nearly every day. He describes trees he planted after coming home from work over the past decade. He says \u201cI can visualize that tree, or this tree, or that tree over there, when I planted it. It\u2019s just kind of satisfying to look back and say hey, there it is!\u201d Looking back at the changes he has made on the land, from a field of invasive species to a thriving forest, Dan finds a kind of therapy and satisfaction from working on his woodland.\u00a0 A statement to his dedication to the land he says \u201cI haven\u2019t ever made any money on this place, probably won\u2019t live long enough to. But you know what\u2019s a psychologist charge, per hour? What\u2019s it worth to your mental health just to be happy with what you\u2019re doing?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We take a walk and four wheeler ride with Dan on his property on Oregon&#8217;s North Coast. Dan rides a four-wheeler around trails of his land finding new things nearly every day. He describes trees he planted after coming home from work over the past decade. He says \u201cI can visualize that tree, or this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/2018\/06\/05\/id-rather-beach\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;d rather be here than on a beach<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8637,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1281970],"tags":[1277446,1277800,1281969,1277111,1276985,1278099],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodland-stories","tag-family-forest-owners","tag-family-forests","tag-landsteward","tag-small-woodland-owners","tag-woodland-stories","tag-woodlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8637"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}