{"id":19771,"date":"2024-11-12T19:19:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T18:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=19771"},"modified":"2024-11-16T19:27:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T18:27:33","slug":"daily_3544_-_venus_nerthus_and_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2024\/11\/12\/daily_3544_-_venus_nerthus_and_i\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3544 &#8211; Venus, Nerthus and I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3544_Venus_Nerthus.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s that time of the year where my energy levels dip, almost no matter what I do. I&#8217;m trying to get into the habit of going out in the daylight every day, even when it&#8217;s all gray and I don&#8217;t feel inspired at all.<\/p>\n<p>Today was a sunny day, for a change, so I went for a longer walk after lunch. My half-hour circuit takes me to Starbo park; today I walked onwards to the N\u00e4lsta fields. This sculpture in the fields by Lena Lervik is titled &#8220;Venus and Nerthus biding their time&#8221;. Everybody knows Venus; this sculpture taught me that Nerthus (Nertus, Nj\u00e4rd, Nj\u01ebr\u00f0r) is a Germanic-Nordic fertility goddess. Here they&#8217;re both enjoying the last rays of the autumn sun, before it sinks below the trees in the west.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of the year where my energy levels dip, almost no matter what I do. I&#8217;m trying to get into the habit of going out in the daylight every day, even when it&#8217;s all gray and I don&#8217;t feel inspired at all. Today was a sunny day, for a change, so I went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,774,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-neighbourhood","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19772,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19771\/revisions\/19772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}