{"id":654,"date":"2021-09-30T09:21:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T17:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/?p=654"},"modified":"2021-12-18T14:24:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T23:24:35","slug":"fall-flowers-are-nice-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/?p=654","title":{"rendered":"Fall flowers are nice too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLet\u2019s talk about the flowers that bloom in the spring,\u201d my mother would say whenever someone started to drift towards coarse in their mode of conversation. As my sister Laura reminded me, one of us was pert enough to once ask her, \u201cwhy can\u2019t we talk about the flowers that bloom in the fall sometimes?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t know where that line of questioning led at the time, but I must say that fall can indeed come up with some lovely offerings. Join me as I walk down the street in Ketchikan, Alaska, on a recent autumn afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"832\" src=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-2.png 624w, https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-2-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"832\" src=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-3.png 624w, https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-3-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"832\" src=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-4.png 624w, https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-4-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"832\" src=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-5.png 624w, https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-5-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-6.png 624w, https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-6-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"832\" src=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-7.png 624w, https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-7-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-8.png 624w, https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-8-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your ball, spring. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLet\u2019s talk about the flowers that bloom in the spring,\u201d my mother would say whenever someone started to drift towards coarse in their mode of conversation. As my sister Laura reminded me, one of us was pert enough to once ask her, \u201cwhy can\u2019t we talk about the flowers that bloom in the fall sometimes?\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[361,362],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-an-alaskan-educator-and-citizen","tag-fall-flowers","tag-ketchikan"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}