{"id":878,"date":"2005-06-08T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/06\/08\/summer-sun-somethings-begun-but-uh-oh-those-summer-nights\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:49:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:49:36","slug":"summer-sun-somethings-begun-but-uh-oh-those-summer-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/06\/08\/summer-sun-somethings-begun-but-uh-oh-those-summer-nights\/","title":{"rendered":"SUMMER SUN SOMETHING&#8217;S BEGUN BUT UH-OH THOSE SUMMER NIGHTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer was so long when I was a kid. I&#8217;m pretty sure they&#8217;ve shortened it. And they&#8217;ve definitely made it colder.<\/p>\n<p>THEY&#8217;VE got a lot to answer for.<\/p>\n<p>Althooouuugh, they may have shortened the LENGTH of it, but the days! Wow, are THEY long! And this! Sunshine makes me so happy, especially after a couple of weeks of unseasonably cold and grey weather. This was the sky a few minutes ago, at 8:30 p.m. in the evening.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/16020_original.jpg\" width=500 height=375 alt=\"blue sky to the north\" align=\"middle\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/18002_original.jpg\" width=500 height=375 alt=\"blue sky to the south\" align=\"middle\"><\/p>\n<p>Then I walked around and took some more photos of things green and growing and things lilac and lovely.<\/p>\n<p><!--more green and growing--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/16527_original.jpg\" width=500 height=375 alt=\"pretty green\" align=\"middle\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/16303_original.jpg\" width=500 height=375 alt=\"clover is the new grass\" align=\"middle\"><br \/>\nClover is the new Grass&#8230;at least in our yard!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/17027_original.jpg\" width=500 height=375 alt=\"not so itty bitty anymore\" align=\"middle\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/17303_original.jpg\" width=500 height=667 alt=\"ready for my closeup!\" align=\"middle\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to think about bedtime when it&#8217;s that sunny out. We put the kids to bed at the customary time, pulling their black shades down to block the brightness. After I went out to snap the sky, I snuck in to see if they were sleeping.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/16681_original.jpg\" width=500 height=375 alt=\"karin not sleeping\" align=\"middle\"><br \/>\nVerdict: Karin = not sleeping!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/17537_original.jpg\" width=500 height=375 alt=\"martin sleeping?\" align=\"middle\"><br \/>\nMartin&#8230;sleeping?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/17686_original.jpg\" width=500 height=375 alt=\"nope! not sleeping!\" align=\"middle\"><br \/>\nVerdict: Martin = not sleeping!<\/p>\n<p><b>Because I am chronically early and a big dork and wished them yesterday: HAPPY BIRTHDAY ON YOUR ACTUAL BIRTHDAY, BIRTHDAY WISHES to <a href=\"http:\/\/gentle_dream.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">gentle_dream<\/a>!<\/b> (she&#8217;s so nice, I wished them twice!)<\/p>\n<p><b>Cracking Me Up<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dadgonemad.com\/2005\/06\/dont_shoot_shoo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Don&#8217;t Shoot Shoot Shoot That Thing at Me<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer was so long when I was a kid. I&#8217;m pretty sure they&#8217;ve shortened it. And they&#8217;ve definitely made it colder. THEY&#8217;VE got a lot to answer for. Althooouuugh, they may have shortened the LENGTH of it, but the days! Wow, are THEY long! And this! Sunshine makes me so happy, especially after a couple of weeks of unseasonably cold and grey weather. This was the sky a few minutes ago, at 8:30 p.m. in the evening. Then I walked around and took some more photos of things green and growing and things lilac and lovely.<\/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":[7,3],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-obiterphotos","tag-wonderfulworld"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","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=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7637,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/7637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}