{"id":12,"date":"2010-06-03T04:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paytonandgrace.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2010-06-03T04:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T04:12:00","slug":"the-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/2010\/06\/03\/the-beginnings\/","title":{"rendered":"the beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_wFhJN28WjAE\/TA67dsFE78I\/AAAAAAAAAD8\/ZAlVFJdJ_TE\/s1600\/bugalow1.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480523915279527874\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 10px 10px 0;cursor: hand;width: 200px;height: 102px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_wFhJN28WjAE\/TA67dsFE78I\/AAAAAAAAAD8\/ZAlVFJdJ_TE\/s200\/bugalow1.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', serif\">It is the beginning of summer here in Colorado. My garden is growing just enough lettuce and spinach for a snack, not quite yet enough for a salad (but I am confident that it will get there, hopefully soon!). I had debated whether or not to even start a garden this year because I knew we&#8217;d be moving out of our dear Hobbit House at the Glen. I am very glad I did. I am fully convinced that without dirt to dig into, I&#8217;d be quite lost. So, as our time at the Hobbit House ended, the garden began. <\/span><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', serif\">And only nine weeks from now, as our time in Colorado ends, a new chapter of school begins! It was this, the the series of beginnings and endings, that prompted Payton and I to start a blog. We got to thinking that all of this school, different phases of training, and moving was becoming a bit confusing. Payton decided that this might allow everyone to keep track of our whereabouts and what we were up to. I agreed.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', serif\">So, here it is. <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the beginning of summer here in Colorado. My garden is growing just enough lettuce and spinach for a snack, not quite yet enough for a salad (but I am confident that it will get there, hopefully soon!). I had debated whether or not to even start a garden this year because I knew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1068,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71321],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-summertime","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1068"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}