{"id":7476,"date":"2014-08-12T01:59:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T05:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allandouglas.dougbittinger.com\/blog\/?p=7269"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:39","slug":"evening-breeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/evening-breeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Breeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7152\" src=\"http:\/\/PineyMountainFoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sunset_117MD-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"senset from the porch\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/>As the orange orb of the sun slid down behind English mountain, splashing the sky with rose, vermillion and mauve, the day\u2019s heat began to wane.\u00a0 The air began to move; caressing their cheeks to further cool them as they sat in their rockers on the porch before it drifted off to play among the trees.\u00a0 The rustling leaves were like music.<\/p>\n<p>The breeze wafted first from the south, then paused, and resumed again from the northeast, paused and swung back again as though it were playing a game.\u00a0 \u201cI wonder what makes it change like that.\u201d She sighed.<\/p>\n<p>His mind filled with images of weather charts and thermal differential flows; warm air rising, pulling cooler air in from all around, mobile low pressure cells.\u00a0 He turned to her to deliver the dialogue that was forming.\u00a0 She sat there, eyes closed, head against the tall chair back, as she lolled gently to and fro.\u00a0 His nose wrinkled in thought, then he leaned back in his chair and resumed a slow rocking.\u00a0 \u201cOh, it\u2019s just playful I reckon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The sky deepened through the shades of purple into black as the Chuck-will\u2019s Widow added his melody to the concert of nature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the orange orb of the sun slid down behind English mountain, splashing the sky with rose, vermillion and mauve, the day&rsquo;s heat began to wane.&nbsp; The air began to move; caressing their cheeks to further cool them as they sat in their rockers on the porch before it drifted off to play among the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/evening-breeze\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Evening Breeze&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-7476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative","tag-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19562,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7476\/revisions\/19562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}