{"id":28111,"date":"2012-04-13T01:03:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T05:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=28111"},"modified":"2012-04-13T01:03:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T05:03:50","slug":"a-lull-between-rainstorms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=28111","title":{"rendered":"a lull between rainstorms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big><center><br \/>\nTwo storms this week, unusual for April.  February is usually our wettest month.<br \/>\nThe first storm arrived around midnight Tuesday, the other is due later tonight.<br \/>\nJust before the first storm, leaves were swept, tables and chairs straightened.<br \/>\nLater that night I fell asleep to the sound of rain drumming on these tables, a deeply satisfying &#8220;sleep song.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/april2012\/41012eve037-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anticipating the rain on Tuesday, I celebrated with a late-afternoon trip to a couple nurseries.<br \/>\n(Aloe capitata var. quartzicola.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/april2012\/41012eve072-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m silly in love with rain, but I&#8217;m not the only one.<\/p>\n<p>By Langston Hughes<\/p>\n<p><em>April Rain Song<\/p>\n<p>Let the rain kiss you.<br \/>\nLet the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.<br \/>\nLet the rain sing you a lullaby.<\/p>\n<p>The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk.<br \/>\nThe rain makes running pools in the gutter.<br \/>\nThe rain plays a little sleep-song on our roof at night\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And I love the rain.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/big><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two storms this week, unusual for April. February is usually our wettest month. The first storm arrived around midnight Tuesday, the other is due later tonight. Just before the first storm, leaves were swept, tables and chairs straightened. Later that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=28111\">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":[1082,27],"tags":[1898,1901,1899,503,1900],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-7jp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28111"}],"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=28111"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28137,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28111\/revisions\/28137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}