{"id":4086,"date":"2020-04-27T19:10:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T23:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/?p=4086"},"modified":"2020-05-09T14:17:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T18:17:22","slug":"toad-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/2020\/04\/27\/toad-season\/","title":{"rendered":"toad season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Nina Joss<\/em><\/p>\n<p>last time it started, I wasn\u2019t here.<br \/>\nsure, I got to dance by the river with my friends,<br \/>\nbut not to this soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p>this music,<br \/>\nI think of it as springtime,<br \/>\nthe months of April and May<br \/>\nwhen there\u2019s thunder in the sky,<br \/>\nheat lightening,<br \/>\nan oasis of life in my backyard.<\/p>\n<p>last year, I missed the<br \/>\nfarmer\u2019s market<br \/>\nand sitting on the front porch on warm evenings.<br \/>\nthere\u2019s a way the air smells in Michigan in the summer,<br \/>\nsomething about June in Ann Arbor.<br \/>\nmaybe I\u2019ll bring the hammock out again.<br \/>\nwe\u2019ll get bubble tea and hang in the arb like we did in 2018<br \/>\nI\u2019ll probably get to go to the el cabino this year.<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s bonfires in the backyard and Dad<br \/>\nfound our old ripstick in the garage and I<br \/>\nrode it to the end of the street.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t think we\u2019d all be back here<br \/>\nuntil Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>maybe there is good in this coming home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nina Joss last time it started, I wasn\u2019t here. sure, I got to dance by the river with my friends, but not to this soundtrack. this music, I think of it as springtime, the months of April and May when there\u2019s thunder in the sky, heat lightening, an oasis of life in my backyard. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/2020\/04\/27\/toad-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about toad season<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4705,"featured_media":3817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[97658],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plymouth-mi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/files\/2020\/04\/VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Journal.svg_.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7o53H-13U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}