{"id":122,"date":"2015-10-01T21:13:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T05:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?p=122"},"modified":"2016-02-13T11:07:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T19:07:42","slug":"fall-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With an increase in latitude and the occasional rainy day, I had imagined that my cyclist&#8217;s tan might begin to fade. That peculiar tan &#8212; the very short sleeves but very long shorts, the edges made starker by elastic; the high collar with the plunging neckline; and for the hairless, the topping of Klingon stripes left by the helmet. But neither time nor high-octane sunscreen shows much effect. Fortunately I am seldom called upon to appear in bathing attire, and then it&#8217;s usually with a drysuit as well.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/berries.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-125\" src=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/berries-1024x567.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"625\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/berries-1024x567.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/berries-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/berries-624x346.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnother surprise: the blackberries bloomed really early, but then we waited and waited for the bumblebees to arrive to pollinate them. I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ve found two dozen of the burly bees the whole summer, and those from only two of the four species that we used to see regularly. By some miracle there was a big crop of blackberries anyway &#8212; plus the best thimbleberries ever. I don&#8217;t know how to account for this, but I sure would like to see the bees again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With an increase in latitude and the occasional rainy day, I had imagined that my cyclist&#8217;s tan might begin to fade. That peculiar tan &#8212; the very short sleeves but very long shorts, the edges made starker by elastic; the high collar with the plunging neckline; and for the hairless, the topping of Klingon stripes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}