{"id":573888713,"date":"2015-10-28T22:06:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T03:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573888713"},"modified":"2016-07-01T22:10:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T03:10:11","slug":"these-leaves-are-quitters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/10\/28\/these-leaves-are-quitters\/","title":{"rendered":"These leaves are quitters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stepped outside two times today. Once was to go from office to class and once was to go run, a brisk five mile jog that was mostly remarkable for feeling normal. <\/p>\n<p>On the way back from my run, and on to an evening meeting, I got a few leaf pictures. They are giving up the fight:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct15\/oct37.jpg\" alt=\"Leaves\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>By next week they&#8217;ll all be on the ground and brown, probably. That&#8217;s the way it moves here: fast. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct15\/oct38.jpg\" alt=\"Leaves\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So you seek out the maples and the dogwoods and you hope your timing is right. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct15\/oct39.jpg\" alt=\"Leaves\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Now, no photo could ever capture the feeling of autumn, particularly on a rainy day, and especially not the hasty cell phone variety of shot. But that doesn&#8217;t mean we don&#8217;t try.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct15\/oct40.jpg\" alt=\"Leaves\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stepped outside two times today. Once was to go from office to class and once was to go run, a brisk five mile jog that was mostly remarkable for feeling normal. On the way back from my run, and on to an evening meeting, I got a few leaf pictures. They are giving up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573888713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-samford","category-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573888713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573888714,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888713\/revisions\/573888714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573888713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573888713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573888713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}