{"id":51,"date":"2003-07-31T17:32:55","date_gmt":"2003-07-31T21:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocolatedream.net\/blog\/archives\/2003\/07\/31\/sweet-like-summer\/"},"modified":"2003-07-31T17:32:55","modified_gmt":"2003-07-31T21:32:55","slug":"sweet-like-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/archives\/2003\/07\/31\/sweet-like-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet like summer&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mom came home from a conference &#8211; and brought raspberries!<\/p>\n<p>Now, everyone who knows me, knows that I love raspberries, LOVE them. They&#8217;re my absolutely favorite fruit in the world. And this summer they&#8217;ve been rare, probably due to the draught.<\/p>\n<p>So now, I&#8217;m happy. Very happy indeed. I think the main reason is the memories, the fact that to me raspberries equal summer, and carefree playing in the sun as as a child. It means our holiday home on a small lake in Switzerland, next to a big meadow with grass high enough that a small child could get lost (or hide) in it. It means picking raspberries from the bush in the evening and eating the first ones while they&#8217;re still sun warm and the rest later with cream together with the family.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I eat a raspberry, or smell one, it brings me back, and I can&#8217;t help but smile and feel the summer warmth of my childhood wash over me.<\/p>\n<p>A friend made me a LiveJournal icon last summer, that still means a lot to me:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chocolatedream.net\/lovesong\/icons\/raspberry-girl.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom came home from a conference &#8211; and brought raspberries! Now, everyone who knows me, knows that I love raspberries, LOVE them. They&#8217;re my absolutely favorite fruit in the world. And this summer they&#8217;ve been rare, probably due to the draught. So now, I&#8217;m happy. Very happy indeed. I think the main reason is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moments"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}