{"id":5699,"date":"2011-11-03T20:31:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T02:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=5699"},"modified":"2011-11-03T20:33:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T02:33:11","slug":"to-the-boy-im-sorry-youre-going-to-miss-these-colors-but-next-year-its-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/memphis\/to-the-boy-im-sorry-youre-going-to-miss-these-colors-but-next-year-its-on\/","title":{"rendered":"To the boy: I’m sorry you’re going to miss these colors but next year, it’s on"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"3nov1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"3nov7\"<\/a> \"3nov14\"<\/a> \"3nov6\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"3nov15\"<\/a> \"3nov2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I took a little solo walk today in Chickasaw Gardens near the little park and lake, where I go to entertain my greenest fantasies \u2014 the ones where I imagine what life would be like were I to be the kind of person who drove a Lexus into a two-car garage bordered by meticulously landscaped greenery tended by hired help. <\/p>\n

They’re silly fantasies, little one, because we all know that even if I could afford a Lexus and a two-car garage, I would still drive a dented Nissan and park in the driveway because the garage would be full of crafting supplies and boxes of jeans I am delusional enough to believe I will be able to wear again someday.<\/p>\n

I’m getting off topic here. The point is, the trees were showing out something big. And I figure you’ll miss the bulk of the pretty colors this year, but I want you to know that I am out here drinking them in for you, and looking forward to the days in a few years when you will jump into and completely destroy the pile of leaves I’ve worked so hard to rake up. Because you are going to be SO GROUNDED. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I took a little solo walk today in Chickasaw Gardens near the little park and lake, where I go to entertain my greenest fantasies \u2014 the ones where I imagine what life would be like were I to be the kind of person who drove a Lexus into a two-car garage bordered by meticulously landscaped greenery tended by hired help. They’re silly fantasies, little one, because we all know that even if I could afford… <\/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":[10],"tags":[2233,2153,1609],"class_list":["post-5699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memphis","tag-fall","tag-memphis","tag-seasons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-1tV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699","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=5699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5702,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699\/revisions\/5702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}