{"id":898,"date":"2010-09-14T08:38:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T12:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/?p=898"},"modified":"2011-11-15T18:02:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T23:02:28","slug":"look-at-the-sunflowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/look-at-the-sunflowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Look at the Sunflowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>End of summer and everybody&#8217;s sad&#8230;just look at the sad sunflowers!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-902\" title=\"sunflower2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sunflower2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"301\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-909\" title=\"sunflower3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sunflower3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"301\" \/>The children have been back at school for two weeks now and we&#8217;ve started to harvest butternut squash which can only mean one thing: summer&#8217;s officially over.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny, really, that you can&#8217;t wait for the summer season to begin and when the \u201cend\u201d rolls around, it&#8217;s almost welcome.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tired! And just look at the sunflowers; I think they&#8217;re tired, too, of holding up their large, seeded heads in the unbearable heat and blinding light of the sun. I look at them thinking they give up at about this same time each year. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-899\" title=\"sunflower1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sunflower1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I noticed the sun setting at 6:30 last night. Two months ago, I&#8217;d be weeding at this time, thinking \u201cThank goodness I have two more hours to work.\u201d Now? I&#8217;m happy to be thinking ahead to apple butter, early morning frosts, and Indian corn. That is, until the seed catalogs come at the end of winter and it&#8217;s time to choose those sunflower seeds again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>End of summer and everybody&#8217;s sad&#8230;just look at the sad sunflowers! The children have been back at school for two weeks now and we&#8217;ve started to harvest butternut squash which can only mean one thing: summer&#8217;s officially over. It&#8217;s funny, really, that you can&#8217;t wait for the summer season to begin and when the \u201cend\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35,18,62,19,84,83],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-family","tag-farming","tag-flowers","tag-hobbyfarm","tag-summers-end","tag-sunflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}