{"id":1861,"date":"2009-09-22T08:47:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T14:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2009-09-22T08:47:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T14:47:38","slug":"september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/1861","title":{"rendered":"September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years I have railed against the end of summer, the beginning of autumn.\u00c2\u00a0 September was always a month of conflict for me: it is my birth month, but also when school would start up again, and when the weather in Illinois would start changing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sholeh\/3943846798\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3499\/3943846798_6428b886ae_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am a little southern girl at heart, in some ways.\u00c2\u00a0 I love the heat, the sun, swimming, and warm summer nights.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes September will surprise you, though.\u00c2\u00a0 On a beautiful September day in Waukegan:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sholeh\/3943844304\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2493\/3943844304_1b0bfb3af3_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I went to my first White Sox baseball game last night, which was also my second professional sports game ever (the first was hockey).\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m not a fan of baseball, but I discovered that I had fun even though I don&#8217;t know much about the sport, and they were playing the Minnesota Twins (I was born in MN).\u00c2\u00a0 It was a good way to close out the summer, and the weather was perfect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Back to the subject at hand: I discovered that I am looking forward to the scarves, hats, boots, fall leaves, apple-picking, pumpkin flavored <em>everything<\/em>, the smell of autumn&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When did this happen?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years I have railed against the end of summer, the beginning of autumn.\u00c2\u00a0 September was always a month of conflict for me: it is my birth month, but also when school would start up again, and when the weather&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}