{"id":31038,"date":"2025-08-31T09:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T15:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=31038"},"modified":"2025-08-31T09:59:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T15:59:28","slug":"it-made-someone-want-to-cry-when-i-did-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2025\/08\/it-made-someone-want-to-cry-when-i-did-this\/","title":{"rendered":"A new season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1000009377-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"635\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1000009377-1024x635.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31039\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1000009377-1024x635.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1000009377-300x186.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1000009377-768x476.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1000009377-1536x952.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tang of cool evening air has signaled to my brain that summer is coming to an end. I have taken down the summer decor and replaced it with some autumn things. It always makes family members sad when I pack up two seasons, summer and Christmas, so I try to make the changes when when no one is looking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This will be the season that Tim gets married. We moved furniture to his new apartment this weekend and seeing his room at our house without a bed was jarring. There are many endings in life. The children leave for college and they leave for missions, but when they get married, we experience a more definitive end to the years of being together. He won&#8217;t sleep under our roof many more nights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t mind decor changing, in fact, I welcome it. But it really makes me pause when I see those empty rooms once inhabited by our children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tang of cool evening air has signaled to my brain that summer is coming to an end. I have taken down the summer decor and replaced it with some autumn things. It always makes family members sad when I pack up two seasons, summer and Christmas, so I try to make the changes when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2025\/08\/it-made-someone-want-to-cry-when-i-did-this\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A new season<\/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":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31038","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=31038"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31058,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31038\/revisions\/31058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}