{"id":16226,"date":"2023-04-21T00:20:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T05:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/?p=16226"},"modified":"2023-04-21T00:20:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T05:20:41","slug":"nothing-is-essential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/21\/nothing-is-essential\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing is essential."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9250.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9250-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"To the east, the flood has begun.\" class=\"wp-image-16227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9250-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9250-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9250-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9250-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9250-75x50.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9250.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">To the east, the flood has begun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9256.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9256-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Men call to each other on the water\" class=\"wp-image-16228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9256-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9256-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9256-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9256-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9256-75x50.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9256.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Men call to each other on the water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9266.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9266-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"for the comfort of voices.\" class=\"wp-image-16229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9266-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9266-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9266-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9266-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9266-75x50.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9266.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">for the comfort of voices.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9274.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9274-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Love surprises us. \u2014Eliza Griswold\" class=\"wp-image-16230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9274-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9274-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9274-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9274-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9274-75x50.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9274.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Love surprises us.<br\/><em>\u2014Eliza Griswold<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSCF9274.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16231,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16226\/revisions\/16231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}