{"id":2140,"date":"2011-05-24T23:19:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T05:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2011-05-24T23:50:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T05:50:47","slug":"twelve-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/?p=2140","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a very damp and cloudy spring, but the sun came out yesterday; the air was so warm and the sky was so clear and blue. I had a bit of time between errands, so I sat under a beautiful tree that was still full with blossoms.  I took that time to reflect over the past year and counted with gratitude all the blessings and struggles that have entered my life.  <\/p>\n<p>I am grateful. <\/p>\n<p> That is all; I could try to say more, but I won&#8217;t, because that is all that matters. <\/p>\n<p>Well, one more thing; this year I seem to notice and enjoy the blossoms on the trees much more than I did last year.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/60141310@N00\/5756869115\/\" title=\"P1010425 by banjobear, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2348\/5756869115_d4185e447d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"P1010425\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight.<br \/>\n-Donald G. Mitchell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a very damp and cloudy spring, but the sun came out yesterday; the air was so warm and the sky was so clear and blue. I had a bit of time between errands, so I sat under a beautiful tree that was still full with blossoms. I took that time to reflect over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}