{"id":183,"date":"2008-06-20T16:37:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T16:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stitch.hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2015-06-23T15:22:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T19:22:02","slug":"why_i_love_summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/why_i_love_summer\/","title":{"rendered":"why I love summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh.My.Goodness.  I love having the summer off!<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just discuss a few of the reasons why I love summer and my days off.<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.avenueb.org\/albums\/album83\/aar.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.avenueb.org\/albums\/album83\/aar.sized.jpg\" width=425 alt=\"Tongue Everywhere\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\n<P>I dare you to deny that this is the best and weirdest tongue you&#8217;ve ever seen before.  Who wouldn&#8217;t want to spend time getting soaked by something so full of chocolate-y love?  I love being at home with Hudson.<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.avenueb.org\/albums\/album80\/aak.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.avenueb.org\/albums\/album80\/aak.sized.jpg\" width=425 alt=\"New Project\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Knitting socks on a weekday in the middle of the afternoon&#8211;another wonderful perk to having the summer off.  Do I <em>need<\/em> to do laundry instead?  Probably, yes, but we can wear old undies for just one more day this week.  I&#8217;ve got plenty with holes that I&#8217;ve been hanging on to for just that reason.<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.avenueb.org\/albums\/album80\/aah.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.avenueb.org\/albums\/album80\/aah.sized.jpg\" width=350 alt=\"Good Lord Good\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Need I say more?  Totally acceptable to have this in the middle of a hot day, while lounging on the patio, knitting socks that I won&#8217;t wear until October.<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.avenueb.org\/albums\/album80\/aai.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.avenueb.org\/albums\/album80\/aai.sized.jpg\" width=350 alt=\"Flower Planter\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure I could enjoy all my flowers even if I had to work in the summer, but not in the middle of the afternoon, in the middle of the week.  (I&#8217;m just pushing it now, aren&#8217;t I?)<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.avenueb.org\/albums\/album80\/aaj.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.avenueb.org\/albums\/album80\/aaj.sized.jpg\" width=350 alt=\"Ahhh!\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for joining me as I list the reasons why I love summer, and why I love working for the public school system.  Happy first day of summer to everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh.My.Goodness. I love having the summer off! Let&#8217;s just discuss a few of the reasons why I love summer and my days off. I dare you to deny that this is the best and weirdest tongue you&#8217;ve ever seen before. Who wouldn&#8217;t want to spend time getting soaked by something so full of chocolate-y love? <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/why_i_love_summer\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}