{"id":1680,"date":"2015-03-18T14:34:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T05:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2015-03-18T14:35:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T05:35:58","slug":"paradise-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/18\/paradise-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradise west"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was fortunate to spend a couple of laid-back days with my family in Watkinsville, Georgia.<\/p>\n

In the US of A.<\/p>\n

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It was rainy or overcast most of the time . . .<\/p>\n

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but spring was on the way just the same.<\/p>\n

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You could hear it early in the morning with the birds talking up a storm, and . . .<\/p>\n

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. . . see it, too. Color was\u00a0popping out everywhere.<\/p>\n

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Once someone saw some of the pictures I’d taken of my own neighborhood—here on the east shore of the Pacific Pond—and told me I was lucky to live in paradise. What I’ve often\u00a0wondered since then is . . .<\/p>\n

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. . . who doesn’t?<\/p>\n

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Eyes like the dawn<\/em><\/p>\n

Dawn brings the day—out for me.<\/em><\/p>\n

(unknown Shizuoka folk duo)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was fortunate to spend a couple of laid-back days with my family in Watkinsville, Georgia. In the US of A. It was rainy or overcast most of the time . . . \u00a0\u00a0 but spring was on the way just the same. You could hear it early in the morning with the birds talking … Continue reading Paradise west<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}