{"id":144,"date":"2015-10-31T21:20:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T01:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=144"},"modified":"2015-10-31T21:21:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T01:21:16","slug":"144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"48. Glowing Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GlowingLeaves2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-145\" src=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GlowingLeaves2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"GlowingLeaves2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GlowingLeaves2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GlowingLeaves2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> The day after I mentioned being thankful for Autumn was my day off.\u00a0 It dawned on me that I hadn&#8217;t been home at sundown in weeks (because the sun goes down while I&#8217;m driving home from work, and I&#8217;d had weekend activities lately).\u00a0 When I looked out my window in the late afternoon, I was stunned to see the sun spotlighting the line of red maple trees on the hill on the other side of my lake.\u00a0 They were at their peak of colorfulness and looked stunning. I had to go out!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GlowingLeaves3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-146\" src=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GlowingLeaves3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"GlowingLeaves3\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GlowingLeaves3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GlowingLeaves3.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instead of my usual walk on the path around the lake, I walked through the corridor of bright and shining leaves.<\/p>\n<p>These pictures only begin to give the idea of the amazing display.\u00a0 All of the pictures I took here had me exclaiming aloud when I first saw how beautiful it was.\u00a0 It sounds silly to say I gasped at the beauty, but that&#8217;s the truth.\u00a0 What a tremendous blessing that evening was.\u00a0 It felt like my own private astonishing display.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GlowingLeaves1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-147\" src=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GlowingLeaves1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"GlowingLeaves1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GlowingLeaves1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GlowingLeaves1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day after I mentioned being thankful for Autumn was my day off.\u00a0 It dawned on me that I hadn&#8217;t been home at sundown in weeks (because the sun goes down while I&#8217;m driving home from work, and I&#8217;d had weekend activities lately).\u00a0 When I looked out my window in the late afternoon, I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}