{"id":1041,"date":"2011-11-06T22:28:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T22:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2011-11-06T22:34:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T22:34:00","slug":"before-the-leaves-started-to-turn-and-before-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/06\/before-the-leaves-started-to-turn-and-before-the-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"before the leaves started to turn (and before the snow)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As northeastern October days came and went, so did our pretty leaves. And a few late-turners are still in abundance. This autumn has felt like the longest ever. Ever. Everyday something new.  Walks with leaf, acorn and twig collecting, all new discoveries shared with a one year old. One day we went to a favorite national historic park for a herb festival. Bought herb vinegars, jelly and bunches of fresh, just-cut basil for yummy home made pesto. Walked through a Revolutionary War herb garden next to a 1700&#8217;s homestead surrounded by fields, apple orchards and quince trees. Such a dreamy, inspiring October place. The garden was just <i>overflowing<\/i> with fresh herbs and flowers. Above all the plants, a rich magenta and oh-so-velvety <i>coxcomb<\/i> was begging to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/11_11_5.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/11_11_5_3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As northeastern October days came and went, so did our pretty leaves. And a few late-turners are still in abundance. This autumn has felt like the longest ever. Ever. Everyday something new. Walks with leaf, acorn and twig collecting, all new discoveries shared with a one year old. One day we went to a favorite &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/06\/before-the-leaves-started-to-turn-and-before-the-snow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;before the leaves started to turn (and before the snow)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}