{"id":585,"date":"2008-10-10T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T06:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=585"},"modified":"2008-10-10T06:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T06:49:00","slug":"fall-is-coming-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"Fall is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>Today it felt like fall was really coming. \u00c2\u00a0It was overcast and windy and cool. Made me want to curl up with a good book near a fireplace and Molly (the dog). \u00c2\u00a0It was only up in the low 50&#8217;s by noon and felt like snow was in the air. I figured I&#8217;d try to get the last lawn mowing of the year done later in the day and then see if I needed to turn off my lawn sprinkler (and my mom&#8217;s and my mother-in-law&#8217;s and &#8230;).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So I walked over to my regular dentist visit for the joys of clean teeth (and the prevention of all the ills of decayed teeth). \u00c2\u00a0I spent about an hour in the dental office because the dentist is a long time acquaintance so we visited for a bit after the exam and tooth cleaning. And then I walked out the door and my jaw about hit the sidewalk.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It is now a completely different day. \u00c2\u00a0The heavy, ugly overcast of earlier in the day has mysteriously disappeared. Instead, it is sunny and fast approaching the mid 60&#8217;s. So I mowed my lawn and finished winterizing the lawn mower under the assumption that the cold is coming. But I didn&#8217;t have to consider shutting off the sprinkling systems yet. And it was warm enough to break a good sweat while mowing the lawn even as dusk set in.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is one of the things I love about living on the eastern plains of Colorado. \u00c2\u00a0If you don&#8217;t like the weather now, wait a bit and it will be completely different. \u00c2\u00a0Here&#8217;s to hoping that this weekend isn&#8217;t snowy! {<span>*grin*<\/span>}<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today it felt like fall was really coming. \u00c2\u00a0It was overcast and windy and cool. Made me want to curl up with a good book near a fireplace and Molly (the dog). \u00c2\u00a0It was only up in the low 50&#8217;s by noon and felt like snow was in the air. I figured I&#8217;d try to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=585\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fall is Coming<\/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":[],"categories":[472,608,607,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}