{"id":573891556,"date":"2019-09-18T22:54:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T02:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573891556"},"modified":"2019-09-26T16:15:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T20:15:32","slug":"the-place-where-summer-and-fall-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2019\/09\/18\/the-place-where-summer-and-fall-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"The place where summer and fall meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was a little spot I stumbled into over the weekend at the race upstate. The leaves are turning up there, the buzzing things are still singing their chorus of eternal summer:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ddi7Jhb-t5A\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>God bless &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p>This was in a little spot between the road and nothing. From a car you wouldn&#8217;t even notice this, looking for all the world like just a little place they scooped the soil up to mound for the road above. In this little clump of trees, not even a tree line, really, there was a little bridge:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept19\/sept15.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And of course, the accompanying 4-wheeler trail.<\/p>\n<p>If you walked over that bridge, crossing the thick mud patch below where the rain and road drainage inevitably  gathered, you&#8217;d see a little house and barn off in the distance about 150 yards away. It looked charming enough. Who knows what prompted them to build that little footbridge, aside from muddy boots.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m telling myself these yellowed because they got snapped off in a storm, not because they knew what was coming:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept19\/sept16.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I should enjoy the fall, it is a beautiful fall we get here, but I can&#8217;t get over the feeling of: <em>Again?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a little spot I stumbled into over the weekend at the race upstate. The leaves are turning up there, the buzzing things are still singing their chorus of eternal summer: God bless &#8217;em. This was in a little spot between the road and nothing. From a car you wouldn&#8217;t even notice this, looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573891556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-video","category-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891556","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=573891556"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573891560,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891556\/revisions\/573891560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573891556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573891556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573891556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}