{"id":2593,"date":"2016-11-30T21:32:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T01:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=2593"},"modified":"2016-12-05T11:42:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T15:42:15","slug":"november-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=2593","title":{"rendered":"November Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Once, years ago, he stood outside a house,\u00a0in the middle of a forest, on a snowy, early November evening.\u00a0 The snow\u00a0was heavy, wet perfect- snow-ball making-snow, and as it came down, there was an oppressive, muffled silence. B<\/em><em>ecause it was early in the\u00a0season, the snow was building up on many of the trees that hadn&#8217;t shed their leaves.\u00a0 Then in the silence, first here, then there, he could hear limbs snapping and cracking, like\u00a0random rifle shots in the muffled darkness, as branches gave way under the weight of the wet, heavy\u00a0snow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today, walking home through piles of brown leaves on the sidewalk, the\u00a0trunks, limbs, branches, twigs of bare trees silhouetted against the gray sky. The lawn covered, with some green peaking through here and there. Wondering if he really should bother to rake before it snows.\u00a0 The un-carved pumpkins on the front porch, holding up well from the cold, remind him they need to be\u00a0split and put out back so the squirrels can get at the seeds. Wet, matted leaves line the bottom of the bird bath,<em> that needs to be brought in<\/em>.\u00a0He&#8217;s glad the leaves are down. He had\u00a0worried an early snow would get caught\u00a0in the leaves\u00a0and damage the trees. They seemed to hang on into mid-November.<\/p>\n<p><em>copyright 2016 Christopher Donahue<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once, years ago, he stood outside a house,\u00a0in the middle of a forest, on a snowy, early November evening.\u00a0 The snow\u00a0was heavy, wet perfect- snow-ball making-snow, and as it came down, there was an oppressive, muffled silence. Because it was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=2593\">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-2593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593","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=2593"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2617,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions\/2617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}