{"id":689,"date":"2014-10-29T03:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T07:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/life-and-leaf\/"},"modified":"2014-10-29T03:00:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T07:00:50","slug":"life-and-leaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/life-and-leaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Life and Leaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Renaissance Girl<\/p>\n<p>It seems like the cold weather creeps up when I&#8217;m not paying attention.\u00a0Yesterday I sat outside to eat my lunch, and this morning I pulled my scarf closer around my neck. I love this season as we turn towards winter.\u00a0There is a unique beauty in what happens when the sun sets earlier and the leaves change color.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I took my dog for his morning walk.\u00a0He is a particular fan of leaves and carries one in his mouth for the duration of the walk.\u00a0I think it makes him feel useful.\u00a0Or perhaps, he just likes to hang on to something beautiful. We passed under a tree just as a red leaf, its corners slightly turned up, released itself from its branch. It floated down, turning gently like a lazy Susan.\u00a0I like to think maybe God releases each one at its own moment with a puff of air just strong enough to free it from the tree it grew on.\u00a0Such an interesting image for life.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4088052\" src=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/leaff-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"The Community of Jesus\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/HRZ6k9jgQEo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Renaissance Girl It seems like the cold weather creeps up when I&#8217;m not paying attention.\u00a0Yesterday I sat outside to eat my lunch, and this morning I pulled my scarf closer around my neck. I love this season as we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/life-and-leaf\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}