{"id":3247,"date":"2013-09-29T10:06:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T14:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=3247"},"modified":"2013-09-29T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T14:24:00","slug":"roads-not-taken-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=3247","title":{"rendered":"Roads Not Taken &#8211; Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.28.53.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3248\" alt=\"2013-09-28 14.28.53\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.28.53.jpg?resize=640%2C640\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.28.53.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.28.53.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.28.53.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.28.53.jpg?w=1440 1440w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.28.53.jpg?w=1320 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Every college campus should have a spot like this. A path to ponder, a place to dream. To walk towards the horizon with nothing but sky ahead. No limits. Anything is possible. The world is yours. All that.<\/p>\n<p>As a college student, I often came to this very hill, a short distance from my dormitory. Decades and a lifetime of adventures later, I visit my freshman daughter here. And this road in the clouds still evokes the questions: Where to? What next?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.21.08.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3249\" alt=\"2013-09-28 14.21.08\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.21.08.jpg?resize=640%2C857\" width=\"640\" height=\"857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.21.08.jpg?resize=764%2C1024 764w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.21.08.jpg?resize=224%2C300 224w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.21.08.jpg?w=1936 1936w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.21.08.jpg?w=1320 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We came to look at the cows. R loves cows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.20.22.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3250\" alt=\"2013-09-28 14.20.22\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.20.22.jpg?resize=640%2C640\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.20.22.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.20.22.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.20.22.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.20.22.jpg?w=1440 1440w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.20.22.jpg?w=1320 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tetley remained ambivalent. Not even a bark.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.22.12.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3251\" alt=\"2013-09-28 14.22.12\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.22.12.jpg?resize=640%2C857\" width=\"640\" height=\"857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.22.12.jpg?resize=764%2C1024 764w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.22.12.jpg?resize=224%2C300 224w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.22.12.jpg?w=1936 1936w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-28-14.22.12.jpg?w=1320 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know, I just wrote <a title=\"Plans for Urban Aging\" href=\"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=3228\">here<\/a> about my new-found attraction to the city as a place to grow old &#8211; but hey, it&#8217;s not time for that yet. Back home I searched the real estate sites to look at houses and land in that part of the state. There&#8217;s \u00a0still relatively inexpensive places to be had. With space for cows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every college campus should have a spot like this. A path to ponder, a place to dream. To walk towards the horizon with nothing but sky ahead. No limits. Anything is possible. The world is yours. All that. As a college student, I often came to this very hill, a short distance from my dormitory. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=3247\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roads Not Taken &#8211; Yet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[48,42,154,12,19,27],"class_list":["post-3247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seasonal-musings","tag-aging","tag-back-to-school","tag-future","tag-nature","tag-time","tag-walks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pPzTS-Qn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3254,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions\/3254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}