{"id":983,"date":"2008-09-28T16:57:27","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T23:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=983"},"modified":"2008-09-28T16:59:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T23:59:04","slug":"fall-arrives-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/28\/fall-arrives-in-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Arrives in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"SCCC Arboretum by Nerd's Eye View, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nerdseyeview\/2896925154\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3151\/2896925154_d7e4f91413.jpg\" alt=\"SCCC Arboretum\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got out of bed this morning with a real craving for nature. Maybe it was the golden cast of the fall light across our suburban neighborhood, maybe it was a hangover the bright lights of New York City, maybe it was the last three days spent blurry and wrapped in the gooey cellophane of a cold.<\/p>\n<p>Reasons don&#8217;t matter. We&#8217;re lucky to live where Japanese maples are plentiful. We headed over to the Arboretum on the campus of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southseattle.edu\/arboretum\/index.html\">South Seattle Community College<\/a> in search of orange. It&#8217;s a pretty little garden with a lot of different micro-systems, a few water features, and no people. None. It overlooks the site of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlechinesegarden.org\/\">Chinese Garden <\/a>where there&#8217;s now a construction site and the promise of a grand future.<\/p>\n<p>It was enough to satisfy my lazy need for some outdoors time. We wandered around for maybe an hour under a very bright blue sky, then went home to eat soup and take a nap. Summer is over, there&#8217;s no denying it, but the transition, it&#8217;s oh so nice to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got out of bed this morning with a real craving for nature. Maybe it was the golden cast of the fall light across our suburban neighborhood, maybe it was a hangover the bright lights of New York City, maybe it was the last three days spent blurry and wrapped in the gooey cellophane of &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Fall Arrives in Seattle\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/28\/fall-arrives-in-seattle\/#more-983\" aria-label=\"Read more about Fall Arrives in Seattle\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,254,183,253,776],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seattle","tag-59","tag-arboretum","tag-color","tag-fall","tag-seattle","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}