{"id":10291,"date":"2021-09-01T02:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T02:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10291"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:39","slug":"enjoying-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10291","title":{"rendered":"ENJOYING THE RAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After school a strong rain broke loose. Sarah looked out the front window and said, &#8220;That just makes me want to go run around outside.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was my first day back at teaching after surviving my own bout with Covid. I was exhausted.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I joined her in the backyard.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I freely admit my motivation: Melissa and I have just four years with Sarah before the nest is empty.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if there is one thing I know at age 53, it is how fast four years will fly.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20210831_165157-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1079\" height=\"1438\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20210831_170601-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1080\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After school a strong rain broke loose. Sarah looked out the front window and said, &#8220;That just makes me want to go run around outside.&#8221; It was my first day back at teaching after surviving my own bout with Covid. I was exhausted. So I joined her in the backyard.\u00a0 I freely admit my motivation: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10294,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291\/revisions\/10294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}