{"id":3040,"date":"2009-09-21T08:22:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T12:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=3040"},"modified":"2009-09-21T08:22:09","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T12:22:09","slug":"riley-wonders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=3040","title":{"rendered":"Riley Wonders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were sitting on the porch the other evening, enjoying some refreshing beverages at the end of a busy day, when I realized that someone was staring at me.<br \/>\nMe: Is there something I can do for you?<br \/>\nRiley: <span style=\"color: #993300;\">I was wondering something&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span>Me: Ok &#8211; I&#8217;ll bite. What are you wondering about?<br \/>\nRiley: <span style=\"color: #993300;\">I heard someone say that summer is almost gone. Is that true?<br \/>\n<\/span>Me: Well, yes. In fact fall begins on Tuesday.<br \/>\nRiley: <span style=\"color: #993300;\">But where does summer <em><strong>go<\/strong><\/em>? If something is gone, it had to go somewhere, right?<br \/>\n<\/span>Me: Dude, it&#8217;s complicated. Summer isn&#8217;t a thing &#8211; it is a time. You can&#8217;t see time or figure out where it went.<br \/>\nRiley: <span style=\"color: #993300;\">Sometimes people don&#8217;t make any sense at all. If something is gone, it went somewhere and that&#8217;s all there is to it.<br \/>\n<\/span>Me: Okay then, where do you think summer has gone?<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3047\" title=\"ri5\" src=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ri5.jpg\" alt=\"ri5\" width=\"600\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ri5.jpg 600w, http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ri5-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Riley: <span style=\"color: #993300;\">I think it went that way.<br \/>\n<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3044\" title=\"ri4\" src=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ri41.jpg\" alt=\"ri4\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ri41.jpg 600w, http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ri41-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were sitting on the porch the other evening, enjoying some refreshing beverages at the end of a busy day, when I realized that someone was staring at me. Me: Is there something I can do for you? Riley: I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=3040\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,46],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3040"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3051,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions\/3051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}