{"id":19516,"date":"2026-10-21T06:02:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T10:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/?p=19516"},"modified":"2026-10-21T06:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T10:02:44","slug":"sluggish-spontaneity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/sluggish-spontaneity\/","title":{"rendered":"Sluggish Spontaneity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pic04a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-19519 size-thumbnail\" style=\"border: 0px; margin: 1px 2px;\" src=\"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pic04a-150x113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pic04a-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pic04a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pic04a-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pic04a-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pic04a-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pic04a.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>I planned this trip six months ago, then decided mid-morning yesterday that today was the day to take it. Weather and various appointments have interfered with all previous attempts, and yesterday I suddenly realized that I now had the required three open days and the weather forecast didn&#8217;t look too bad. I&#8217;m near Knoxville tonight, headed to Chattanooga for a couple of museums and a new-to-me park.<\/p>\n<p>This entry lets blog-only subscribers know about the trip and provides a place for comments. The journal is <a href=\"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/chatt1026\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I planned this trip six months ago, then decided mid-morning yesterday that today was the day to take it. Weather and various appointments have interfered with all previous attempts, and yesterday I suddenly realized that I now had the required &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/sluggish-spontaneity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip-journal-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1WE0S-54M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19520,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19516\/revisions\/19520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}