{"id":806,"date":"2014-07-20T10:38:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T10:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=806"},"modified":"2014-07-20T10:52:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T10:52:16","slug":"like-this-historic-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"like this historic canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/images\/richmondriver.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>on that day alone with you<br \/>\nin Richmond &#8230;..\u00a0\u00a0 as you and I<br \/>\nwalked along<br \/>\nthe calm water<br \/>\nof the canal<br \/>\na quieting peace<br \/>\ncame over<br \/>\nmy spirit<br \/>\nits usual restlessness<br \/>\nbecame suddenly still<br \/>\nvery much reminding me<br \/>\nof the way I felt<br \/>\nas I leisurely sat<br \/>\nfor the first time<br \/>\nat your home in Chesapeake<br \/>\nhowever\u00a0\u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0 during<br \/>\nthis experience with you<br \/>\nin Richmond &#8230;&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 is when<br \/>\nI made the promise to myself<br \/>\nto let you<br \/>\nget to know me<br \/>\nway\u00a0\u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0 way more<br \/>\nthan anyone else<br \/>\nmuch like this<br \/>\nhistoric canal<br \/>\nwe slowly walk alongside<br \/>\nwhere its rich past and value<br \/>\nfor the people<br \/>\nwho have lived here<br \/>\nor are living here now<br \/>\nand for the visitor<br \/>\nis being told<br \/>\nI will reveal myself to you \u2026..<br \/>\n\u2026\u2026\u00a0\u00a0 how you inspire me<br \/>\nto be forever captured<br \/>\nthrough my images and words<br \/>\nmy dear\u00a0 \u00a0~\u00a0\u00a0 sweet muse<\/p>\n<p>Images &amp; Words by\u00a0\u00a0 ~Keith Alan Hamilton~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>on that day alone with you in Richmond &#8230;..\u00a0\u00a0 as you and I walked along the calm water of the canal a quieting peace came over my spirit its usual restlessness became suddenly still very much reminding me of the way I felt as I leisurely sat for the first time at your home in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=806\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;like this historic canal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rlf","category-muse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}