{"id":573886168,"date":"2014-03-30T23:34:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T04:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573886168"},"modified":"2014-03-31T15:43:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T20:43:11","slug":"catching-up-136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/03\/30\/catching-up-136\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weekly post with a week&#8217;s worth of homeless pictures. We&#8217;re making space for them as a place-holding post. Brilliant!<\/p>\n<p>Our dogwood is just about ready to unfurl:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar14\/mar90.jpg\" alt=\"dogwood\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And the maple&#8217;s bloom is in progress, too. The maple seeds, or samaras, always make me smile. One year, as a well meaning and adoring child, I collected them all up and brought them to my grandmother. I was being helpful. She said she&#8217;d make them into beans that night, and she did. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar14\/mar91.jpg\" alt=\"maple\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It was years before I figured it out. <\/p>\n<p>Our first spring-time sunset. It was about a week late, but it got here:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar14\/mar92.jpg\" alt=\"sunset\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A closeup:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar14\/mar93.jpg\" alt=\"sunset\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>How Dewayne the balloon guy does rally caps:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar14\/mar94.jpg\" alt=\"baseball\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve shifted the paradigm for tea dispersal at Price&#8217;s Barbecue House. The containers now face the customer. And there are labels. This is a change of almost 20 years of habit for me. Maybe this is the first time they&#8217;ve done this since they opened in the 1970s. This will take some getting used to:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar14\/mar95.jpg\" alt=\"baseball\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weekly post with a week&#8217;s worth of homeless pictures. We&#8217;re making space for them as a place-holding post. Brilliant! Our dogwood is just about ready to unfurl: And the maple&#8217;s bloom is in progress, too. The maple seeds, or samaras, always make me smile. One year, as a well meaning and adoring child, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573886168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573886168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573886168"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573886168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573886172,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573886168\/revisions\/573886172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573886168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573886168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573886168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}