{"id":3440,"date":"2016-07-19T11:43:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T17:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2016-07-13T12:21:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T18:21:19","slug":"a-land-filled-with-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/2016\/07\/19\/a-land-filled-with-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"A Land Filled with Meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Bright-Colors-in-the-Belly-Buttes.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-magnific_type=\"image\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Bright-Colors-in-the-Belly-Buttes-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Bright Colors in the Belly Buttes\" width=\"100%\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Bright-Colors-in-the-Belly-Buttes-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Bright-Colors-in-the-Belly-Buttes-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Bright-Colors-in-the-Belly-Buttes-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Bright-Colors-in-the-Belly-Buttes-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Being in the Belly Buttes was an interesting experience. They are on land owned by the Blood Tribe in southern Alberta, and  I had to get special permission to hike here. On the one hand I felt at home &#8211; it felt open and free and the chance of running into random people was small. The only trails were deer and cow trails. On the other hand, I definitely felt I was travelling on someone else&#8217;s land, through someone else&#8217;s past, which holds a significance that I can only begin to understand. I wonder if this isn&#8217;t a feeling that should be more familiar to me &#8211; the sense of past and future people living with and on the land, the sense of the land meaning more than just a place to hike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being in the Belly Buttes was an interesting experience. They are on land owned by the Blood Tribe in southern Alberta, and I had to get special permission to hike here. On the one hand I felt at home &#8211; it felt open and free and the chance of running into random people was small. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[731,732,727],"tags":[3053,3056,3061,3051,235,3055,3060,1099,3052,3059,3058,3057,888,3062,1242,3054],"class_list":["post-3440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badlands-2","category-landscape-2","category-prairie-2","tag-belly-buttes","tag-blood-tribe","tag-chance","tag-cow-trails","tag-feeling","tag-future-people","tag-hand","tag-home","tag-interesting-experience","tag-land","tag-meaning","tag-random-people","tag-sense","tag-significance","tag-southern-alberta","tag-special-permission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3449,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions\/3449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}