{"id":2508,"date":"2015-10-15T22:44:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T13:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/?p=2508"},"modified":"2015-10-15T22:46:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T13:46:47","slug":"first-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/15\/first-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"First snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151004_kaede_red_yellow_blue2_600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2509 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151004_kaede_red_yellow_blue2_600.jpg\" alt=\"151004_kaede_red_yellow_blue2_600\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When, after the cool and the rain, you take out the warm blanket&#8212;only to toss it aside as the clear blue morning begins to\u00a0sweep over\u00a0the horizon . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151004_red_berries_green_600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2510 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151004_red_berries_green_600.jpg\" alt=\"151004_red_berries_green_600\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>. . . and you go out and see the berries\u00a0doing their\u00a0best \u00a0to delight . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151012_rice_sky_yatsuyama_600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2515 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151012_rice_sky_yatsuyama_600.jpg\" alt=\"151012_rice_sky_yatsuyama_600\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>. . . and you\u00a0find that the rice and the sky are complementing and complimenting each other . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151015_orange_brown_leaf_fish_600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2517 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151015_orange_brown_leaf_fish_600.jpg\" alt=\"151015_orange_brown_leaf_fish_600\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>. . . and you notice the cherry fish swimming up to the surface .\u00a0. . wait a minute, I was feeling so happy I got a bit delirious for a second there&#8212;that&#8217;s <em>not<\/em> a cherry fish swimming up toward the surface&#8212;just look at how those long and narrow fins angle back&#8212;that&#8217;s a cherry fish <em>plunging down into the coral<\/em> . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151008_chestnut_glow_600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2512 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151008_chestnut_glow_600.jpg\" alt=\"151008_chestnut_glow_600\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a>. . .\u00a0and you step into the woods, and the sun slants in through the canopy and sets a chestnut aglow (of course, reminding it of how it has evolved from sea urchins) . . . and <em>then<\/em> when the shine suddenly rips in a little stronger . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151008_chestnut_big_glow_600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2511 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151008_chestnut_big_glow_600.jpg\" alt=\"151008_chestnut_big_glow_600\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>. . . and the chestnut remembers that long before its ancestors dwelled on an ocean floor, they were exploded from a star&#8212;they <em>were <\/em>stars . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151012_sparrows_blue_600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2516 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151012_sparrows_blue_600.jpg\" alt=\"151012_sparrows_blue_600\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a>. . . and <em>then, <\/em>when you notice that the sight of all those fields of cut rice\u00a0have driven\u00a0the sparrows mad, and they gather, get into formation, and glance off to the east, in an expression of gratitude\u00a0. . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151011_fuji2_600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2514 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151011_fuji2_600.jpg\" alt=\"151011_fuji2_600\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>. . . you might, too . . . for this is\u00a0the sort of day that\u00a0you might discover that your little buddy, Fuji-kun, has gotten out of bed with his little cap on. Of course, it&#8217;s a\u00a0tad bit\u00a0colder where he sleeps.<\/p>\n<p>Uh-huh.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2513 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151011_fuji1_600.jpg\" alt=\"151011_fuji1_600\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When, after the cool and the rain, you take out the warm blanket&#8212;only to toss it aside as the clear blue morning begins to\u00a0sweep over\u00a0the horizon . . . . . . and you go out and see the berries\u00a0doing their\u00a0best \u00a0to delight . . . . . . and you\u00a0find that the rice and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/15\/first-snow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First snow<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-2508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508","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=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions\/2520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}