{"id":29372,"date":"2025-02-24T22:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T04:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=29372"},"modified":"2025-02-24T23:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T05:11:06","slug":"a-snowy-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2025\/02\/a-snowy-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlikely Texas souvenirs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1000007554-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1000007554-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1000007554-1024x771.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1000007554-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1000007554-768x578.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1000007554-1536x1157.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Richard and I made a trip to Texas a few years ago to visit our old home. Poor weather and sad news hounded us in many places we went. Defeated, we stopped in Georgetown during a deluge of rain and I waded into an antique shop, my feet soaking wet through my shoes. I was pretty down, and made myself buy something I would want if I were feeling happier. I chose three framed Currier and Ives prints of winter scenes. Perhaps the snow, which I don&#8217;t associate with Texas, was the reason I bought them. Our forever home is a snowy place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We loved our years in Texas, but on this trip especially, it was clear that you can never recreate the past. And like these sentimental prints, my memories of Austin are a little idealized, preserved in a few printed images, and the people bring them to life!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard and I made a trip to Texas a few years ago to visit our old home. Poor weather and sad news hounded us in many places we went. Defeated, we stopped in Georgetown during a deluge of rain and I waded into an antique shop, my feet soaking wet through my shoes. I was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2025\/02\/a-snowy-place\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unlikely Texas souvenirs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29372"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29394,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29372\/revisions\/29394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}