{"id":4043,"date":"2017-11-09T23:15:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T03:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=4043"},"modified":"2018-04-12T23:24:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T03:24:14","slug":"fall-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=4043","title":{"rendered":"Fall All the Same"},"content":{"rendered":"

During a scene in The Great Gatsby<\/em> where several characters languish in the summer heat of New York City, one character chastises another for being \u00e2\u20ac\u0153morbid\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in her attitude and declares that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Here, the weather doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get \u00e2\u20ac\u0153crisp\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the fall the way it does in NYC. Nor is it the fall weather of my Chicago childhood; I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never woken to frost on windowpanes or trees stripped bare by overnight winds.<\/p>\n

But it is fall, and there is a shift. The thick daytime heat breaks earlier now in the evenings, and the beach crowds have thinned with summer vacations long over and children now occupied with school. The beach, I think, is now a softer version of its summer self.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Kids still steal away in the evenings or on weekends, in search of sand and waves.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>But there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more sitting now,<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>more lazy castle-building,<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>more rolling within the waves than riding high above them.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more relaxing,<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>more loosening.<\/p>\n

I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t call it crisp, I guess.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fall all the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During a scene in The Great Gatsby where several characters languish in the summer heat of New York City, one character chastises another for being \u00e2\u20ac\u0153morbid\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in her attitude and declares that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Here, the weather doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get \u00e2\u20ac\u0153crisp\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the fall the way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2242,556,2241,2243],"class_list":["post-4043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","tag-autumn-on-the-island","tag-fall-on-the-beach","tag-island-falls","tag-the-perfect-beach-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}