{"id":1470,"date":"2012-11-08T10:19:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T10:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=1470"},"modified":"2012-11-08T10:19:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T10:19:14","slug":"october-2012","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=1470","title":{"rendered":"October 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Watching the swallows gather here, like ourselves,\u00a0 in the warm, Southern air, it\u2019s strange to imagine their journey here, having left &#8211; who knows? from West Cork\u2026 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Early morning swim.<br \/>\nSwallows skim the pool to sip.<br \/>\nHave they come from home?<\/p>\n<p>(26\/10\/12)<\/p>\n<p>************<\/p>\n<p><em>Portugal! Watching huge flocks of stately stork silhouettes leave their nesting area in the morning and return in the evening\u2026 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Like leaves in a spring,<br \/>\nstorks spiral intricately<br \/>\nin Moorish patterns.<\/p>\n<p>(19\/10\/12)<\/p>\n<p>************<\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s wet, it\u2019s mild, it\u2019s cloudy and foggy, it\u2019s all topsy-turvy the whole year, even the plants don\u2019t know what to make of it:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The seasons, haywire:<br \/>\nrhododendrons flowering<br \/>\nas oak and ash bronze.<\/p>\n<p>(12\/10\/12)<\/p>\n<p>************<\/p>\n<p><em>No sign of the Indian Summer for which we\u2019d been hoping and waiting. In the woods\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Moss-dripping branches<br \/>\nreach out, creaking, to touch light.<br \/>\nPine needles whisper.<\/p>\n<p>(05\/10\/12)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the swallows gather here, like ourselves,\u00a0 in the warm, Southern air, it\u2019s strange to imagine their journey here, having left &#8211; who knows? from West Cork\u2026 \u00a0 Early morning swim. Swallows skim the pool to sip. Have they come &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=1470\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":492,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P36zMW-nI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1471,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1470\/revisions\/1471"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}