{"id":5269,"date":"2015-02-05T00:56:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T22:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groworganic.info\/wordpress\/?p=5269"},"modified":"2015-02-08T12:27:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T10:27:18","slug":"a-man-of-the-forest-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/groworganic.info\/wordpress\/?p=5269","title":{"rendered":"A man of the forest, Finland &#8211; \u05e9\u05d5\u05de\u05e8 \u05d4\u05d9\u05e2\u05e8\u05d5\u05ea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-YiwzoBT6iU4\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAAq2I\/IRLiHn6fFw8\/photo.jpg?sz=50?sz=24\" alt=\"\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/113329989092843946580\">Michael Turtle<\/a> originally shared this post:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><b>A man of the forest, Finland<\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI am a man of the forest,\u201d Pekka Vaananen declares as he introduces himself. He\u2019s a rugged looking Finn, with bright narrow eyes and rough skin on his face that shows his age. He smiles broadly and welcomes me to his home.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Well, I say \u2018home\u2019 but in reality this is more a compound for winter fun. And Pekka may use this place to sleep and host visitors, but his spiritual home is in the trees around us.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe forest is my friend and I feel it is the biggest lesson we can learn, that life is from the forest,\u201d he tells me.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cBecause the trees are in their places and they cannot move but we can move. We are connected to the forest in a way that we don\u2019t normally understand. The forest and the trees are giving us the oxygen which we breathe. Without them we cannot exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timetravelturtle.com\/2015\/01\/outdoor-activities-near-espoo-finland\/\">http:\/\/www.timetravelturtle.com\/2015\/01\/outdoor-activities-near-espoo-finland\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23finland\" rel=\"nofollow\">#finland<\/a> \u00a0 <a class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23nbefinland\" rel=\"nofollow\">#nbefinland<\/a> \u00a0 <a class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23visitespoo\" rel=\"nofollow\">#visitespoo<\/a> \u00a0 <a class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23winter\" rel=\"nofollow\">#winter<\/a> \u00a0 <a class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23nature\" rel=\"nofollow\">#nature<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/113329989092843946580\/albums\/6111612774720940145\/6111612777880090098\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-dCq1nfuSD-w\/VNDPcNZH9fI\/AAAAAAAAraw\/7YV2zfpBx_s\/w506-h750\/Helsinki-2015-94_web-lrg.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Turtle originally shared this post: A man of the forest, Finland \u201cI am a man of the forest,\u201d Pekka Vaananen declares as he introduces himself. He\u2019s a rugged looking Finn, with bright narrow eyes and rough skin on his face that shows his age. He smiles broadly and welcomes me to his home. Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/groworganic.info\/wordpress\/?p=5269\"> \u05dc\u05e4\u05e8\u05e1\u05d5\u05dd \u05d4\u05de\u05dc\u05d0 <span class=\"meta-nav\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":-5269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[411],"tags":[847,851,848,849,850],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"includedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-dCq1nfuSD-w\/VNDPcNZH9fI\/AAAAAAAAraw\/7YV2zfpBx_s\/w506-h750\/Helsinki-2015-94_web-lrg.jpg","efiAlt":"","highlights":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/groworganic.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/groworganic.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/groworganic.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/groworganic.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/groworganic.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/groworganic.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5273,"href":"http:\/\/groworganic.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions\/5273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/groworganic.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/groworganic.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/groworganic.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/groworganic.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}