{"id":530,"date":"2008-12-30T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=530"},"modified":"2009-03-01T13:24:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T18:24:23","slug":"its-not-really-summer-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=530","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not really summer, but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going through some of the photos I have taken in the last year because due to receiving repeated requests, I am going to start selling prints. While I was looking through them, I realized that it didn&#8217;t seem like December anymore.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3193\/2671409751_c81953cec8_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"393\" \/>And don&#8217;t get me wrong. I love winter &#8211; I really do. I figure if you are going to live in Upstate NY, where the winter lasts about one third of the year, you should learn to appreciate it.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3002\/2717351260_512c5e2675_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"600\" \/>Just as they do when I am actually out in the garden, these photos just seemed to pick up my burdens, worries and troubles and carry them away, leaving a gentle sweet lightness in their stead.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3126\/2673586445_996a533f95_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"306\" \/>My heart lifts, I find a smile tugging the corners of my mouth and I remember the days when I took each photo.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3234\/2678941383_6ffddddcdb_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/>And I know the rest of the day will be better because I spent a few minutes sharing these with you.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2205\/2691975023_4ed9497b43_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going through some of the photos I have taken in the last year because due to receiving repeated requests, I am going to start selling prints. While I was looking through them, I realized that it didn&#8217;t seem &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=530\">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":[11,5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530"}],"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=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}