{"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":"

\"Bright<\/a><\/p>\n

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 – 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’s land, through someone else’s past, which holds a significance that I can only begin to understand. I wonder if this isn’t a feeling that should be more familiar to me – 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":"

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 – it felt open and free and the chance of running into random people was small. […]<\/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"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t