{"id":891,"date":"2009-11-20T23:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=891"},"modified":"2020-07-02T12:13:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T12:13:39","slug":"november-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":"November thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_EED4nsY1-TQ\/SwcqRta0DLI\/AAAAAAAADyQ\/xd9-XNjBxlg\/s1600\/IMG_3198.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_EED4nsY1-TQ\/SwcqRta0DLI\/AAAAAAAADyQ\/xd9-XNjBxlg\/s400\/IMG_3198.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>November.<br \/>A time of reflection.<br \/>A time to think of planning &#038; preparing for the holidays:)<br \/>A time to stroll through the countless colorful leaves, unhurried.<br \/>The last few fluttery leaves left on the branches appear delicate &#038; wispy-like.<br \/>Bare limbs gracefully reaching, twisting, outward.<\/p>\n<p>A season of changeable weather.<br \/>Gray skies often cover the landscape. <br \/>Cold rain seems especially daunting, dreary.<br \/>Wind sweeps in once in a while, bringing a chill &#038; the promise of colder days to come.<br \/>But sunny skies still reign in NC during November; brilliant blue skies &#038; glorious sunrises &#038; sunsets.<\/p>\n<p>Retail is headlong into the Christmas season, leap-frogging over gracious &#038; forgiving Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>November can be a sad time; last year one of our church teenagers, Matt, was murdered around Thanksgiving&#8211;still so heart wrenching, so heartbreaking:( <br \/>This year&#8217;s news; in a neighboring county an innocent 5 year old girl sold &#038; murdered:( Hard to grasp such tragedy. <br \/>Grief seems harder in November.<\/p>\n<p>Bazaars dot the calendar, Christmas Open Houses, Thanksgiving, the Raleigh Christmas Parade, all special events that give us comfort &#038; cheer us on:)<\/p>\n<p>A time of rest for the Earth.<br \/>A time we should slow down &#038; be thankful for our blessings, but, will we take the time?<\/p>\n<p>(Photo taken from Lake Pine trail last week)<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both; text-align:CENTER'><a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/blogger\/\" target=\"ext\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/pbp.gif\" alt=\"Posted by Picasa\" style=\"border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; November.A time of reflection.A time to think of planning &#038; preparing for the holidays:)A time to stroll through the countless colorful leaves, unhurried.The last few fluttery leaves left on the branches appear delicate &#038; wispy-like.Bare limbs gracefully reaching, twisting, outward. A season of changeable weather.Gray skies often cover the landscape. Cold rain seems especially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}