{"id":3630,"date":"2018-07-16T09:37:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T13:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=3630"},"modified":"2018-07-16T09:37:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T13:37:17","slug":"every-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=3630","title":{"rendered":"Every Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\">In July, I usually write about the weather. I make no apologies about that. When I was young, I didn&#8217;t write about July weather .\u00a0And that was because July, and the summer, seemed to last forever.\u00a0Now, <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\">I&#8217;m not necessarily old, but I am older. And,\u00a0I&#8217;m well aware time and July goes by faster, and the magnificence of summer in New England is fleeting.<\/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;\"> It&#8217;s morning and I work on this blog bleary-eyed and drinking coffee,\u00a0in a wicker chair, on the porch, wearing t-shirt and shorts, barefoot. Perfect weather. My cats Quiet Rustle and Felix loll about.\u00a0\u00a0I glance at the snow shovels I neglected to put away\u00a0standing ready near the backdoor.<em> Leave them there, it will be winter soon enough<\/em> flashes through my mind. I consider that for a moment. <\/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 resolve right then and there to finally put the snow shovels away.<\/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;\"> Everything, indeed, has a season.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>copyright 2018 Christopher Donahue<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July, I usually write about the weather. I make no apologies about that. When I was young, I didn&#8217;t write about July weather .\u00a0And that was because July, and the summer, seemed to last forever.\u00a0Now, I&#8217;m not necessarily old, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=3630\">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-3630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630","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=3630"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3645,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions\/3645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}