{"id":88,"date":"2006-11-08T21:07:41","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T04:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/?p=88"},"modified":"2006-11-08T21:07:41","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T04:07:41","slug":"my-yellow-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"My yellow trees&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>today are turned to burnished bronze.\u00a0 They glow in the light as if they were fires in the dusk.<\/p>\n<p>But yesterday, they were bright!\u00a0 I am putting the pics in, full size, because they were so pretty!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"bottom\" alt=\"The yellow leaves of the medlar with golden fruit\" title=\"The yellow leaves of the medlar with golden fruit\" src=\"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/familypics\/blogpics\/autumnscapes\/yellowmedlar.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"bottom\" alt=\"The yellow maple in the back yard, backlit by the waning sun\" title=\"The yellow maple in the back yard, backlit by the waning sun\" src=\"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/familypics\/blogpics\/autumnscapes\/yellowmaple.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The rain stopped for the morning, and the sky opened up to the bright blue that seems enhanced in postcards.\u00a0 But it was just clean Pacific Northwest air.\u00a0 And as the children emerged from the school, the rain began again.\u00a0 In earnest.\u00a0 And again the clouds brushed the treetops briefly before the night closed in.<\/p>\n<p>I am tired.\u00a0 I am tired of politics, I am tired of parenting, I am tired.\u00a0 Tonight when the children are asleep I will play computer games and then fall into bed early.\u00a0 And I will dream of cheerful yellow trees, doing their best to brighten the world at a dismal time of year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>today are turned to burnished bronze.\u00a0 They glow in the light as if they were fires in the dusk. But yesterday, they were bright!\u00a0 I am putting the pics in, full size, because they were so pretty! The rain stopped for the morning, and the sky opened up to the bright blue that seems enhanced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}