{"id":9739,"date":"2014-08-16T19:44:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T02:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=9739"},"modified":"2016-05-05T08:44:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T14:44:40","slug":"a-memory-of-a-summer-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/a-memory-of-a-summer-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"A Memory of a Summer Afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9740\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9740\" style=\"width: 488px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1-P1014775-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9740 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1-P1014775-001.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"488\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1-P1014775-001.jpg 488w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1-P1014775-001-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Paige<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The late afternoon sun made a golden light behind my two sons&#8217; frames. Daniel and Mark were at their busiest and best among the rocks, knee-deep in the cold mountain stream. There were rocks to move to shore up the wall, and they attacked the project with intensity. I watched them from the wooden slats above, enjoying the teamwork, masculine camaraderie, and those moments when they invited me into their wonder.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t matter that one boy was 14 and the other only 8. Nature had a way of smoothing out the differences between them and brought them running to me to share.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Look, Mom!<\/strong>&#8221; is one of my favorite phrases.\u00a0Rocks, a skull, a stick, all in their turn were placed in front of me. Invited\u00a0into their world for a minute,\u00a0I\u00a0admired their treasures and savored their attention to sharing beauty.\u00a0Bringing\u00a0each offering to show me, I found a boy of no distinct age, simply boyhood.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0wonder, simplicity, and generosity of these moments of boyhood are some of my best treasures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late afternoon sun made a golden light behind my two sons&#8217; frames. Daniel and Mark were at their busiest and best among the rocks, knee-deep in the cold mountain stream. There were rocks to move to shore up the wall, and they attacked the project with intensity. I watched them from the wooden slats &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/a-memory-of-a-summer-afternoon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Memory of a Summer Afternoon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventurous-kids","category-family-time","category-life-according-to-angela","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739","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=9739"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12103,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739\/revisions\/12103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}