{"id":1613,"date":"2011-10-15T10:02:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T17:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2011-10-15T10:31:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T17:31:06","slug":"the-shepherd-of-leaves-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/?p=1613","title":{"rendered":"The Shepherd of Leaves video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/leaf.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/leaf-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"leaf\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/leaf-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radioghost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/leaf.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Some people think that leaves just fall off trees by themselves and go shooting down the river as though by some magical force.  Well no.  They are conducted &#8211; shepherded &#8211; by any number of &#8220;leaf herders&#8221; as the derogatory phrase has it.  In the following video, meant for instruction purposes only, Sherwin shows the practice of Shepherding Leaves in full.  From guiding the leaves down the river with a kind word, to sometimes coaxing them with a stick or violent noise. Pen and ink leaf drawing by <a href=\"http:\/\/christina-thinkingoutloud.blogspot.com\">Christina Sanantonio<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NFo0jOkPTZk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe song at the beginning comes from the recent Stalwarts series:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/The-Bench-Song2.mp3\">Quicktime or Download<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people think that leaves just fall off trees by themselves and go shooting down the river as though by some magical force. Well no. They are conducted &#8211; shepherded &#8211; by any number of &#8220;leaf herders&#8221; as the derogatory phrase has it. In the following video, meant for instruction purposes only, Sherwin shows the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/?p=1613\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Shepherd of Leaves video<\/span>Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[520],"tags":[521,568,66,567,4,1068,73,512,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}