{"id":3766,"date":"2014-09-10T06:30:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T10:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3766"},"modified":"2014-09-10T06:30:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T10:30:12","slug":"reflections-on-the-end-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3766","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on the End of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3767 lazyload\" alt=\"image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"418\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image-300x224.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 560px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 560\/418;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3767\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As summer draws to its close, so does my latest draft, and I find myself reflecting on all the fun I&#8217;ve had, both drinking in the heat and sun and drinking in the joy of putting a new book down on paper. It amazes me how quickly time goes by now, quicker every day it seems, but as fast as the river travels, I try to remind myself of the beauty all around me and of the joy I find in it. Mindfulness is sometimes elusive, but when I reach out for it, I find it there, waiting for me, as if I never left.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So here&#8217;s to productivity and the whirling of the world, and here&#8217;s to the still silence in the center of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As summer draws to its close, so does my latest draft, and I find myself reflecting on all the fun I&#8217;ve had, both drinking in the heat and sun and drinking in the joy of putting a new book down on paper. It amazes me how quickly time goes by now, quicker every day it &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3766\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reflections on the End of Summer<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[209,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3768,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766\/revisions\/3768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}