{"id":4486,"date":"2023-07-24T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=4486"},"modified":"2023-07-24T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T17:39:00","slug":"summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=4486","title":{"rendered":"Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So what happened to June and July? A strange summer, mostly unseasonably cool and foggy here in midcoast Maine, while sweltering &#8216;most everywhere else (fires, plagues of frogs, rain and more rain&#8230;). I put a lot of time and effort into four Convivium Questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"SitwellQuestion.html\">Words To Live By<\/a> last of May 2023\n<li><a href=\"TGBG.html\">realizing the Beautiful, from adversity<\/a> early June (Brian&#8217;s Question)\n<li><a href=\"community.html\">on Community<\/a> early July (John&#8217;s Question)\n<li><a href=\"whatnext.html\">And what next?<\/a> mid July<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;which l enjoyed working on but can&#8217;t really claim had any useful effect beyond my own sorting out of what I was inspired to discover and put into words, and of course plentiful Collection Development by way of book purchases to salve arising curiosities. <\/p>\n<p>In photographic realms, just a few <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/albums\">Flickr Albums<\/a> generated, but no new ground broken by way of image projects, and no public display lined up until maybe next spring. I have ideas for Blurb books, but nothing underway. I now have the wherewithal to make good scans of a lot of old negatives from 40-50-60 years ago, and those might feed into books too. <\/p>\n<p>\nAnd in musical realms, I continue to play for an audience of one, and to acquire irresistible new-old instruments via <a href=\"https:\/\/jakewildwood.blogspot.com\/\">Jake Wildwood<\/a>, but Betsy is of the opinion that there are Too Many instruments, so there&#8217;s a plan afoot to recycle some of the rarely-played via Jake.<\/p>\n<p>\nOtherwise, the rapidly-approaching 80th birthday is beginning to loom&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what happened to June and July? A strange summer, mostly unseasonably cool and foggy here in midcoast Maine, while sweltering &#8216;most everywhere else (fires, plagues of frogs, rain and more rain&#8230;). I put a lot of time and effort into four Convivium Questions: Words To Live By last of May 2023 realizing the Beautiful, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,3,15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convivial","category-musics","category-photography","category-tempora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4487,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions\/4487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}