{"id":587,"date":"2004-08-02T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-03T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/08\/02\/you-pull-back-the-curtains-and-the-sun-burns-into-your-eyes\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:54:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:54:42","slug":"you-pull-back-the-curtains-and-the-sun-burns-into-your-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/08\/02\/you-pull-back-the-curtains-and-the-sun-burns-into-your-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"YOU PULL BACK THE CURTAINS AND THE SUN BURNS INTO YOUR EYES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure there could have been a more perfect summer day than this one.<\/p>\n<p><b>Summer Sights:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A monarch butterfly that landed on my footrest and breathed in and out with his wings. As soon as the thought &#8220;I should fetch the camera&#8221; crossed my mind, he lifted and floated away.<\/li>\n<li>The grass-marinated slickery limbs of my children as they slipped and slid in and out of the pool<\/li>\n<li>The nodding, sun-saluting red <i>red<\/i> <b>RED<\/b> heads of the bee balm flowers and a crouching, mud-brown toad blending into the woodchips<\/li>\n<li>The sinuous wavy curves of water from the hose sprayed through the sunshine<\/li>\n<li>A bowl of blueberries and 3 cucumbers from Mom&#8217;s garden, served with dinner<\/li>\n<li>The pattern of maple and birch leaf shadows on my book<\/li>\n<li>The green-skinned sky preceding a sudden stillness and short storm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Summer Sounds:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The plastic-crunching noise of the ice dispenser as it spits cold crescents into a glass<\/li>\n<li>Karin grumping that the pool is &#8220;too splashy!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Martin shrieking with glee as he runs and dives into the water, gliding across the slick bottom in a splashing wave<\/li>\n<li>The background narration of the tractor mower fading and growing, punctuated by birdsong<\/li>\n<li>The whirring whirl of ceiling fans in every room<\/li>\n<li>The drumbeats of the evening rain pounding crescendo on the roof, then easing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Sunshine-filled Summer Birthday Wishes to<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/into_the_blue.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">into_the_blue<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure there could have been a more perfect summer day than this one. Summer Sights: A monarch butterfly that landed on my footrest and breathed in and out with his wings. As soon as the thought &#8220;I should fetch the camera&#8221; crossed my mind, he lifted and floated away. The grass-marinated slickery limbs of my children as they slipped and slid in and out of the pool The nodding, sun-saluting red red RED heads of the bee balm flowers and a crouching, mud-brown toad blending into the woodchips The sinuous wavy curves of water from the hose sprayed&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5986,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/5986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}