{"id":2503,"date":"2012-04-24T20:25:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T01:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2012-04-24T20:29:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T01:29:30","slug":"the-inverse-relationship-of-beauty-and-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2503","title":{"rendered":"The inverse relationship of beauty and population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 2.5 miles]<\/p>\n<p>My wife took a trip last year on the Al-Can highway. She says it is beautiful.\u00a0 The people are very sparse there.<\/p>\n<p>For awhile my family and I lived in the mountains in Colorado.\u00a0 Colorado has a healthy population but the people mostly live in a corridor along the front of the mountains, not the most beautiful places.<\/p>\n<p>So it makes one wonder what the relationship is between population and beauty.\u00a0 It seems to be an inverse relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Someone might explain it by saying that the people despoil the beauty; that having the population causes a place to no longer be beautiful.\u00a0 Maybe there is something to that.\u00a0 But I don&#8217;t think it is a complete explanation.<\/p>\n<p>In my experience, the beautiful places are also difficult places to live.\u00a0 I get to thinking that the problem is really the conception of beauty.\u00a0 High mountains are beautiful.\u00a0 Deserts are beautiful.\u00a0 Wide open plains are beautiful.\u00a0 Sea shores are beautiful.\u00a0 All of those places are awe-inspiring, and dangerous.\u00a0 They are not really the best for healthy living.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 2.5 miles] My wife took a trip last year on the Al-Can highway. She says it is beautiful.\u00a0 The people are very sparse there. For awhile my family and I lived in the mountains in Colorado.\u00a0 Colorado has a healthy population but the people mostly live in a corridor along the front of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2508,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions\/2508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}