{"id":2225,"date":"2016-07-25T14:46:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T18:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2019-07-25T15:22:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T19:22:53","slug":"fireflies-and-summer-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=2225","title":{"rendered":"Fireflies and Summer Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If yesterday is always gone, tomorrow never comes, and it is always only now, why can&#8217;t it stay July forever? I say this every year like I am child, wishing for what is immensely pleasurable and I can&#8217;t have. The problem is that I am not a child and this situation gets worse every year. Each spin around the sun finds me older \u00a0and wishing, again, I could stop time in some wonderful moment. It is also a problem that I don&#8217;t experience time <em>like a child<\/em>&#8211; July seemed endless then, followed by an endless August.\u00a0 By the time school came it felt like some major stage of my life had occurred.\u00a0 Now the summer just flies by.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/cropped-20160709_135638.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2257\" src=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/cropped-20160709_135638-300x114.jpg\" alt=\"cropped-20160709_135638.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/cropped-20160709_135638-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/cropped-20160709_135638-768x292.jpg 768w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/cropped-20160709_135638.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summer is too short, as we painfully experience each year.\u00a0 I now have a reminder that pops up on my smart phone each around the first of June each year:\u00a0 <em>Fireflies and Summer Events<\/em>.\u00a0 I put it in my calendar last year after I missed \u00a0the yearly hatching of fireflies \u00a0that magically populate summer evening&#8217;s in\u00a0mid-July.<\/p>\n<p>July is now drawing to a close and I&#8217;ve missed a great deal of it due to the pointless\u00a0responsibilities of adult life.\u00a0 At least the weather was nice.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I do still experience life like a child?<\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright 2016 Magnus Incognito<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If yesterday is always gone, tomorrow never comes, and it is always only now, why can&#8217;t it stay July forever? I say this every year like I am child, wishing for what is immensely pleasurable and I can&#8217;t have. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=2225\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4112,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions\/4112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}