{"id":8428,"date":"2023-10-20T09:32:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=8428"},"modified":"2023-10-17T13:32:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T19:32:52","slug":"golden-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2023\/10\/20\/golden-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love Santa Fe at all times of year, but fall is my favorite season.\u00a0\u00a0 Late September and early October, especially.<\/p>\n<p>The days are bright and sunny, but not hot.\u00a0 The air is crisp and clean, bracing.\u00a0 Dry, of course.\u00a0\u00a0 We don&#8217;t believe in humidity.\u00a0 The nights are cool, the skies\u00a0 full of stars.<\/p>\n<p>And this is when the trees start to turn.\u00a0\u00a0 We don&#8217;t get the full fall colors they have in New England; nor many reds or oranges down this way.\u00a0 But the aspens and the cottonwoods turn yellow, and for a short time we have entire mountains that look as if they were dipped in gold.<\/p>\n<p>The big cottonwood outside my house is one that turns.\u00a0\u00a0 So gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p>In a world that is so sad and troubled and full of hate, it is good to know that we can still stop and see the trees.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8429\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/iotb-blog-fall-aspens-canva-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/iotb-blog-fall-aspens-canva-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/iotb-blog-fall-aspens-canva-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/iotb-blog-fall-aspens-canva-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/iotb-blog-fall-aspens-canva-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/iotb-blog-fall-aspens-canva.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Santa Fe at all times of year, but fall is my favorite season.\u00a0\u00a0 Late September and early October, especially. The days are bright and sunny, but not hot.\u00a0 The air is crisp and clean, bracing.\u00a0 Dry, of course.\u00a0\u00a0 We don&#8217;t believe in humidity.\u00a0 The nights are cool, the skies\u00a0 full of stars. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8428"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8434,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428\/revisions\/8434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}