{"id":5971,"date":"2011-05-05T22:38:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T02:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.org\/?p=3993"},"modified":"2014-07-09T23:04:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T03:04:41","slug":"day-125-the-tortoise-and-the-jackrabbit-two-paths-inkscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2011\/05\/05\/day-125-the-tortoise-and-the-jackrabbit-two-paths-inkscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 125: The tortoise and the jackrabbit (two paths) #Inkscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3994\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110505.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3994\" data-attachment-id=\"3994\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/153196057_80_80-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/153196057_80_80.jpg?fit=80%2C80&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"80,80\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"153196057_80_80\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/153196057_80_80.jpg?fit=80%2C80&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3994\" title=\"Two paths\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110505.png?resize=640%2C395&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Two paths\" width=\"640\" height=\"395\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two paths<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The story doesn&#8217;t always end the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story doesn&#8217;t always end the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[3654,3657],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portfolio","7":"category-requests","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-1yj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":72,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/05\/19\/night-walk-in-ocnj\/","url_meta":{"origin":5971,"position":0},"title":"Night walk in OCNJ","author":"lemsy","date":"2012-05-19","format":false,"excerpt":"Tonight, Melissa and I took a walk on Asbury West Avenue from one end of Ocean City to 34th street, where we stopped at Wawa and had a 10 p.m. coffee. 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