{"id":546,"date":"2011-06-24T11:37:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T10:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/?p=546"},"modified":"2012-05-27T12:42:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T11:42:53","slug":"capturing-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"Capturing summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-548 alignleft\" title=\"The bee and the poppies\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/06\/CD1_2993.jpg\" alt=\"The bee and the poppies\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/06\/CD1_2993.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/06\/CD1_2993-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><br \/>\nI was out walking in the park yesterday and thought about how much I prefer summer to winter. Although it is a big part of it, the warmer weather isn???t the only reason. I think it is that everything seems so much brighter, so much more colourful and so much more alive in summer. I took out my camera and started to take pictures of everything I saw that made me smile. After a few hours, I found I had still not run out of things to capture.<\/p>\n<p>I have decided that during this summer, I will take as many walks in parks and woods as I can manage and capture, in photographs, as much of the summer as I can. When the winter sets in and all seems dull, grey and dead, I will hopefully be able to find some joy in my little virtual summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was out walking in the park yesterday and thought about how much I prefer summer to winter. Although it is a big part of it, the warmer weather isn???t the only reason. I think it is that everything seems so much brighter, so much more colourful and so much more alive in summer. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[109,111,103,110,251],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-urban-nature","tag-bees","tag-capturing-summer","tag-flower","tag-poppy","tag-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}