{"id":1956,"date":"2016-07-16T05:08:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T12:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2016-07-16T05:09:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T12:09:26","slug":"west-texas-sunrise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1956","title":{"rendered":"West Texas Sunrise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150113.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150113.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1957\" \/><\/a>Watching another colorful sunrise this morning and realizing that it, too, is a blessing of retirement\u2014my classes were early and I arrived at school when it was still dark.<\/p>\n<p>Am thinking that the sunrise is a good metaphor for the newly retired. The journey is not ending but beginning, with all the promise and potential of a new day in West Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Now for that construction update I promised: Painters stained steps for the stairway yesterday; it\u2019s a beautiful, open thing that looks over the family room.<\/p>\n<p>And the cement guy is supposed to set forms for the driveway this morning. Hope last night\u2019s rain won\u2019t delay that.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, back to that sunrise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching another colorful sunrise this morning and realizing that it, too, is a blessing of retirement\u2014my classes were early and I arrived at school when it was still dark. Am thinking that the sunrise is a good metaphor for the newly retired. The journey is not ending but beginning, with all the promise and potential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1959,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions\/1959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}