{"id":819,"date":"2014-07-31T17:24:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T21:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=819"},"modified":"2014-12-01T09:22:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T13:22:44","slug":"a-lazy-rainy-sunday-morning-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=819","title":{"rendered":"A Lazy, Rainy, Sunday Morning in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is hard to beat a lazy, rainy,\u00a0Sunday morning\u00a0in July.<\/p>\n<p>The Seventh Day of the week came along again \u00a0and I woke up to a gentle, pleasant rain. The weather had been so perfect recently, I was perversely happy it wasn&#8217;t sunny.<\/p>\n<p>I went out on the back porch and sat in a wicker chair with the Sunday Paper and a big cup of coffee. My journal and\u00a0a trusty tobacco pipe were also part of my setup. No phone or cell phone.<\/p>\n<p>It was blessedly quiet. The only sound was the rain coming down. It reminded me of Sunday mornings at the old, funky\u00a0farmhouse I lived in back in college- and how much things have changed&#8230;and how they haven&#8217;t changed that much.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cropped-20140705_114628.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-785\" src=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cropped-20140705_114628-300x63.jpg\" alt=\"cropped-20140705_114628.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cropped-20140705_114628-300x63.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cropped-20140705_114628.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>copyright 2014 Magnus Incognito<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is hard to beat a lazy, rainy,\u00a0Sunday morning\u00a0in July. The Seventh Day of the week came along again \u00a0and I woke up to a gentle, pleasant rain. The weather had been so perfect recently, I was perversely happy it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=819\">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-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","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=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}