{"id":704,"date":"2010-08-27T05:48:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T05:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=704"},"modified":"2010-08-27T05:48:24","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T05:48:24","slug":"the-dog-days-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=704","title":{"rendered":"The dog days of summer&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/117.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-705\" title=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/117.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/117.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/117-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summer is drawing to a close. School is back and the mornings are darker. The first leaves are falling from the Rowan tree in front of our house. Each hot day is treated as a surprise and appreciated like gold dust&#8230;.maybe it is the last one &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This year we are all feeling a little cheated. Three brilliant hot weeks in late June and early July and then rain. We&#8217;ve already had days that feel like autumn. Running through foggy woods in the early mornings we talk about the summer that never was and plan for running in the snow before too long. Winters in Switzerland are so very long, and summers are gone in the blink of an eye.<\/p>\n<p>We always start to heat our home way later than anyone else (aided of course by my trusty Aga!). I love letting the house cool down in the autumn so that by evening we need a log fire and everyone congregates around it to read and chat. I love using up the jams I&#8217;ve made, the fruit and vegetables from the garden that I&#8217;ve frozen. I love feeling cozy under quilts and duvets. And wearing soft hand-knitted socks again. I love staying home when the weather is cold and wet and wild outside.<\/p>\n<p>Just not quite yet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is drawing to a close. School is back and the mornings are darker. The first leaves are falling from the Rowan tree in front of our house. Each hot day is treated as a surprise and appreciated like gold dust&#8230;.maybe it is the last one &#8230; This year we are all feeling a little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQtrc-bm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}