{"id":2551,"date":"2009-08-21T01:12:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T06:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=2551"},"modified":"2009-08-21T01:12:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T06:12:09","slug":"day-228-after-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/why-am-i-telling-you-this\/day-228-after-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 228: After The Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/3828778610\/\" title=\"Day 228: After The Rain by theogeo, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2558\/3828778610_3f4ccb59dc_b.jpg\" width=\"600\" alt=\"Day 228: After The Rain\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had a moment to myself in the wee hours of Monday morning, when I went outside and sat in the driveway of my parents&#8217; place and listened to the rising symphony of insects and night birds as they called to each other from the shadows. I grew up in the country but I never quite got used to the country dark. Country dark is <i>dark<\/i>. Impenetrable and vast. It was weird at first but I heard the dogs settling in around me and I saw stars \u2014 all of them, every last one \u2014 and I sat there and wept with gratitude and fear and hope and sadness. I tried bargaining with the sky but I suspect it will take a lifetime to tell if my offer was accepted.  <\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/sets\/72157611984534859\/\">Project 365<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a moment to myself in the wee hours of Monday morning, when I went outside and sat in the driveway of my parents&#8217; place and listened to the rising symphony of insects and night birds as they called to each other from the shadows. I grew up in the country but I never quite got used to the country dark. Country dark is dark. Impenetrable and vast. It was weird at first but&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[683,355],"tags":[1267,1027,2149,999,2201,2180],"class_list":["post-2551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-365-2009","category-why-am-i-telling-you-this","tag-leaf","tag-life","tag-project-365","tag-rain","tag-summer","tag-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-F9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}