{"id":28577,"date":"2019-04-30T22:30:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T03:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28577"},"modified":"2019-04-30T22:30:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T03:30:57","slug":"briefly-honeysuckle-this-time-of-year-connects-me-to-childhood-and-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28577","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Honeysuckle this time of year connects me to childhood and Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Yard-flowers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28578\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Yard-flowers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Yard-flowers.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Yard-flowers-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every year about this time, I start smelling the sweet scent of honeysuckle in the evenings outside \u2014 and the smell was strong tonight as Lucy and I walked in our neighborhood. I\u2019m always taken back to the warm spring and summer evenings of my childhood, when my friends and I played outside with reckless abandon in the darkness and safety of the lovely southern neighborhoods which I called home. There\u2019s something magical about being connected to Nature, whether it\u2019s the smell of honeysuckle or the beauty of these wildflowers in my yard. Nature and Nature\u2019s Creator have much to offer us \u2014 if we accept the beauty and love which we\u2019re freely offered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year about this time, I start smelling the sweet scent of honeysuckle in the evenings outside \u2014 and the smell was strong tonight as Lucy and I walked in our neighborhood. I\u2019m always taken back to the warm spring and summer evenings of my childhood, when my friends and I played outside with reckless <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28577\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7qV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28579,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28577\/revisions\/28579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}