{"id":573896257,"date":"2023-10-17T21:31:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T01:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573896257"},"modified":"2023-10-18T16:11:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T20:11:09","slug":"the-sun-took-a-step-back-the-leaves-lulled-themselves-to-sleep-autumn-was-awakened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2023\/10\/17\/the-sun-took-a-step-back-the-leaves-lulled-themselves-to-sleep-autumn-was-awakened\/","title":{"rendered":"The sun stepped back, the leaves dozed, autumn was awakened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a gray blah day, and I acted like it, too. Could have done more, but I did enough. At least I hope so. If not, someone will let me know, and there&#8217;s always tomorrow and Friday and so on. (Thursday I&#8217;ll be busy, of course. Which means tomorrow I&#8217;ll be busy. Which means Friday I&#8217;ll be making up for other stuff. And that is how a stuporific Tuesday influences the rest of the week.)<\/p>\n<p>Late in the day we went for a short run, and the clouds were just beginning to move off for the evening. The sun was able to just break through in the last hour or so of daylight. <\/p>\n<p>The Canada geese are taking all of this as a hint. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct23\/oct59.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Do you ever wonder just how much smarter all the critters are than us? Sure, we&#8217;ve got thumbs and language and  social skills, but the animals, they know when to call it a day.<\/p>\n<p>Those geese flew over this tree, the first tree to start the light show.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct23\/oct60.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And so it begins. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a gray blah day, and I acted like it, too. Could have done more, but I did enough. At least I hope so. If not, someone will let me know, and there&#8217;s always tomorrow and Friday and so on. (Thursday I&#8217;ll be busy, of course. Which means tomorrow I&#8217;ll be busy. Which means Friday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,57,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573896257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-running","category-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573896257","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=573896257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573896257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573896260,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573896257\/revisions\/573896260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573896257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573896257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573896257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}