{"id":3621,"date":"2018-07-09T12:29:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T16:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=3621"},"modified":"2018-07-11T16:20:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T20:20:10","slug":"ice-cream-for-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=3621","title":{"rendered":"Ice Cream for Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\">A perfect, summer morning in July. The golden early light angles through the yard illuminating the flower bed out back. I sit on the porch in the early shadows. The air is warm and still. A coffee cup steams nearby. The birds are chirping and my cats are laying about, cleaning themselves.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\"> I am indeed in the moment. It is the last day of my vacation. Relaxed, I contemplate the serene emptiness of my un-busy mind. Two weeks off have removed the worries of work that seem to always be running in the back of my mind like some behind the scenes computer program.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\"> I have a school-teacher friend who gets eight weeks off a year. When he goes back to school he always says \u201cre-entry\u201d is tough. He&#8217;s not joking. I know what he means even though I only take two weeks. I wish I could stay in the summer moment forever: the calm, the fun and the lovely weather. I can&#8217;t of course. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\">But, I can still have ice-cream for breakfast.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>copyright 2018 \u00a0 Christopher Donahue<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A perfect, summer morning in July. The golden early light angles through the yard illuminating the flower bed out back. I sit on the porch in the early shadows. The air is warm and still. A coffee cup steams nearby. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=3621\">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-3621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621","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=3621"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3634,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions\/3634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}