{"id":17,"date":"2004-11-29T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-30T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2004-11-29T20:29:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-30T01:29:00","slug":"woods-the-through-and-hill-the-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Woods the Through and Hill the Over"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re home once again. The weather driving, as expected was atrocious. It reminded me of going to MA in 2001, when all the kids went with us. I think that is the last time we went to Louise & Scott’s house rather than them coming here. Anyway – it was shortly after 9\/11 of course and I was struck by the normalcy of the travelers on the road with us. There were a lot of American flags on all the cars and there was a sort of affinity among all of us strangers. But mainly I had this sense of the persistance of doing what we always do – get together with people we love to celebrate our blessings. This year on the way there, in between fearing for my life as gi-normous trucks blew past us with gallons of rain water spewing off of them and into our windshield, I thought a lot about that other trip and the changes since. Even from the highway, at night you can see into some houses and lives, in a way that you can’t in the daytime. Families putting up Christmas decorations and watching TV and eating a meal together. Fast flashes of people’s personal cinema. Normal. Ordinary. But such a blessing. One we take for granted most of the time, but even that fact is a blessing in itself – because we can<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re home once again. The weather driving, as expected was atrocious. It reminded me of going to MA in 2001, when all the kids went with us. I think that is the last time we went to Louise & Scott’s … Continue reading →<\/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":[3,4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}