{"id":320,"date":"2005-07-21T20:05:03","date_gmt":"2005-07-22T01:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=320"},"modified":"2007-11-09T11:08:29","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T16:08:29","slug":"not-over-till-its-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Not over till it&#8217;s over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the almanac, the sun rose today at 5:34 a.m., and set at 8:24 p.m. On June 21, the sun rose at 5:18, and set at 8:32 &#8212; not enough of a difference to really notice, but somehow the quality of the light seemed a little different this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it&#8217;s just because the sandpipers have already started migrating south. They&#8217;re always the first migrants I see. It was with a slight pang that I saw a Solitary Sandpiper along the Fox River on Monday, the first visible sign that we are moving towards fall.<\/p>\n<p>But the days are still unbelievably fourteen and a half hours long, the nights short and restless, the heat has really settled in.<\/p>\n<p>((p.s. happy birthday<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.aol.com\/writewrite\/AWritingLife\/\"> jean<\/a>!))<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the almanac, the sun rose today at 5:34 a.m., and set at 8:24 p.m. On June 21, the sun rose at 5:18, and set at 8:32 &#8212; not enough of a difference to really notice, but somehow the quality of the light seemed a little different this evening. Or maybe it&#8217;s just because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,38],"tags":[228],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geneva-ill","category-summer","tag-sandpipers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}