{"id":5830,"date":"2012-05-31T11:44:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T15:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=5830"},"modified":"2012-06-01T11:46:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T15:46:50","slug":"summer-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2012\/05\/summer-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/susie.june12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/susie.june12.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"susie.june12\" width=\"80\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5831\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something about the summer that brings out the kid in me. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like I start a worry-free summer break in June (yep, school kids, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m jealous) or have any grandiose summer plans beyond some stolen moments on the Carolina coast. But come mid-May, like clockwork, I find myself in eager anticipation. Of what, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not exactly sure \u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00c2\u00a0but I do know that I love this time of year, in this particular place. <\/p>\n<p>Sometime last summer \u00e2\u20ac\u201c maybe mid-July \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I found myself walking home late, post bar-closing time, with my husband and uncomfortable high-heeled shoes in tow. It was the sort of summer night that gets written about a lot, with a bright moon lighting up the town and the pavement still warm from the oppressive heat of a July day in the South. The night air was cushioned with the remaining humidity of the afternoon, and at that moment, walking through the night in our little town \u00e2\u20ac\u201c perhaps because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d had a couple of beers, or perhaps just because of the moment \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I felt such a strong connection to this place, to Carrboro, to North Carolina, to the South. <\/p>\n<p>There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a lot of negative things said about this state we call home in recent weeks \u00e2\u20ac\u201c including some from within \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and though I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve surely had some negative thoughts myself, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to encourage us all to recall those moments of connection to and love for this place \u00e2\u20ac\u201c for Carrboro, and for North Carolina.<br \/>\n<em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201cSusan Dickson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something about the summer that brings out the kid in me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5833,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions\/5833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}