{"id":674,"date":"2005-10-20T08:34:28","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T15:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=674"},"modified":"2012-05-09T11:29:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T18:29:12","slug":"transplanted-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2005\/10\/transplanted-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"Transplanted colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been rainy and cold. Now it&#8217;s just cold.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, cold is a relative thing. This is Los Angeles, after all. Cold means it dips below 70 in the afternoons.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m glad it finally feels like fall. Protracted summer is wearing. I am ready for the season change.<\/p>\n<p>People say there is no change in seasons here. Probably other people have missed the changing colors of fall, because there are more than a few cultivated maples and other such trees that change color and drop their leaves.<\/p>\n<p>I was kicking some of those leaves across the sidewalk yesterday. I thought, This is really an artificial fall. This tree isn&#8217;t from around here. It was brought here to drop it&#8217;s leaves.<\/p>\n<p>And then I realized my disdain wasn&#8217;t really fair. I&#8217;m not from around here either. Why can&#8217;t the trees be validated as transplants? A whole lot of the people are.<\/p>\n<p>So, happy fall everybody. Wherever you are. Even if fall is long past for you. Enjoy the seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been rainy and cold. Now it&#8217;s just cold. Of course, cold is a relative thing. This is Los Angeles, after all. Cold means it dips below 70 in the afternoons. But I&#8217;m glad it finally feels like fall. Protracted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2005\/10\/transplanted-colors\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}