{"id":2414,"date":"2014-11-22T17:21:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T17:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?page_id=2414"},"modified":"2014-11-22T17:35:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T17:35:21","slug":"an-aside-on-snail-tracks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/book\/table-of-contents\/an-aside-on-snail-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"An aside on snail tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><em>From<\/em> <a title=\"Book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/book\/\">The English Love Affair with Nature<\/a>. 2.3: Religion<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014oOo\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Early one morning I took the kitchen compost down to the heap at the bottom of the garden. The paving stones under the cherry tree were crisscrossed with glistening lines of squarish spots, the slime tracks of the garden snail, shining white in the low slanting sunlight. William Derham would have argued that God made the snail&#8217;s foot and portable protective shell perfectly suited for its slow crawling way of life. I liked the pattern the tracks made, the light, and the surprise of their beauty.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2300\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2300\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2.3-Snail-Tracks.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2.3-Snail-Tracks-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"2.3 Snail Tracks. Ian Alexander\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2.3-Snail-Tracks-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2.3-Snail-Tracks.jpg 569w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snail Tracks. Ian Alexander<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014oOo\u2014<\/p>\n<p>(&#8230;main part of chapter not included here&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>(Back to <a title=\"Table of Contents\" href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/book\/table-of-contents\/\">Table of Contents<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The English Love Affair with Nature. 2.3: Religion \u2014oOo\u2014 Early one morning I took the kitchen compost down to the heap at the bottom of the garden. The paving stones under the cherry tree were crisscrossed with glistening lines of squarish spots, the slime tracks of the garden snail, shining white in the low &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/book\/table-of-contents\/an-aside-on-snail-tracks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An aside on snail tracks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1908,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2414","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2424,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2414\/revisions\/2424"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}