{"id":573891725,"date":"2019-10-29T21:03:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T01:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573891725"},"modified":"2019-10-31T17:22:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T21:22:18","slug":"this-week-we-show-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2019\/10\/29\/this-week-we-show-color\/","title":{"rendered":"This week we show color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The week of grey, begets the month and seasons of grey. I&#8217;m not putting a picture here every day, but I&#8217;m thinking about doing so on Instagram, at least until the novelties of X days in a row wear out.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct19\/oct78.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Or is that &#8220;wear me down&#8221;? That&#8217;ll happen. Second half of February. You can count on it. Anyway, there is still a lot of color to behold this week, the brilliance flaring until the chemicals dilute themselves in the cycles of the season just before our ability to misanthropomorphize it all. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct19\/oct79.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That sky was today, the tree above was this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>These two on-campus maples were today. They do like to show off:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct19\/oct80.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>See what I mean? I&#8217;ve given that maple tree meaning and purpose. I&#8217;ve given it ambition and ego. I did that in a sentence. Imagine what I can do when the clock falls back and I&#8217;ve got more reason to write, because it is dark out earlier.<\/p>\n<p>I bet this leaf doesn&#8217;t see the weekend:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct19\/oct81.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Now that I write that out, I wish I&#8217;d thought to mark the thing with a bread tie or something. Just to see. Maples, we say here every year, are nature&#8217;s first quitters. But there&#8217;s bound to be a tenacious leaf out there somewhere. A stubborn little thing, one where the petiole is just a wee bit stronger than all its brothers and sisters. <\/p>\n<p>I did it again. I want that leaf to be strong, a signal of resistance for me and others who dread the coming of winter. But really I&#8217;m depriving the ground of important nutrients, or a landscaper a few more seconds making money with the leaf blower, or perhaps a mulch pile somewhere doing &#8230; mulch things.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever noticed the things we don&#8217;t anthropomorphize? Something to consider, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The week of grey, begets the month and seasons of grey. I&#8217;m not putting a picture here every day, but I&#8217;m thinking about doing so on Instagram, at least until the novelties of X days in a row wear out. Or is that &#8220;wear me down&#8221;? That&#8217;ll happen. Second half of February. You can count [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573891725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iu","category-photo","category-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891725","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=573891725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573891726,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891725\/revisions\/573891726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573891725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573891725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573891725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}