{"id":14149,"date":"2011-03-01T22:37:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=14149"},"modified":"2011-03-01T22:48:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:48:31","slug":"cue-the-ice-cream-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=14149","title":{"rendered":"Cue the Ice Cream Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>The twilight opening of the door to the enchanted photographic realm of &#8220;magic hour&#8221; is announced by the canned tunes of the ice cream man plying his cold confections 365 days a year.  If I&#8217;m home when that tinny music floats down our street, around 5:00 o&#8217;clock this time of year, I make a mad dash for the camera and head outdoors.<\/p>\n<p><small> Rusellia equisetiformis spilling off the back porch<\/small><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/2011\/227eve026.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>Geranium pyrenaicum &#8216;Bill Wallis&#8217;<\/small><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/2011\/3111eve018.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>Erysimum linifolium &#8216;Variegatum&#8217;<\/small><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/2011\/3111eve034.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>Queen Anne&#8217;s Lace<\/small><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/2011\/3111eve025.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>more tulips budding<\/small><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/2011\/3111eve013.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no time to grab an ice cream <em>and<\/em> photos, it&#8217;s strictly either\/or, before the door has swung shut on another fleeting magic hour.<br \/>\nIf only the truck sounded like <em>this<\/em> Ice Cream Man.  But then I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;d chuck taking photos and head straight for the ice cream truck.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FFIVPRWT-t0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The twilight opening of the door to the enchanted photographic realm of &#8220;magic hour&#8221; is announced by the canned tunes of the ice cream man plying his cold confections 365 days a year. If I&#8217;m home when that tinny music &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=14149\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[36],"tags":[394,641,643,645,4669,640,642,646],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-3Gd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14149"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14184,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14149\/revisions\/14184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}