{"id":12781,"date":"2023-06-30T01:11:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T06:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=12781"},"modified":"2023-06-30T02:18:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T07:18:30","slug":"mary-mary-quite-contrary-rainbow-and-just-us-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=12781","title":{"rendered":"mary mary quite contrary, rainbow, and just us two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three beautiful things from my past week:<\/p>\n<p>1. The garden is, knock on wood, doing really well. I harvested enough peas and chard yesterday for a meal, picked my first cherry tomatoes, and spied both an adorable wee fairy eggplant and two tiny yellow squash. And the pumpkin has grown up into the bronze fennel, giving the pollinators their choice of yellow flowers.<\/p>\n<p>2. We spied the last few minutes of a rainbow that followed a torrential rain that happened while we were shopping.<\/p>\n<p>3. My friend Sergio and I had dinner after our game Monday night. It&#8217;s always good to go out with the whole team, but sometimes it&#8217;s nice to get one-on-one time, particularly with one of the old gang. We talked about everything from AI to families to fireflies and left feeling good despite our losses earlier in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>How about you? What&#8217;s been beautiful in your world lately?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three beautiful things from my past week: 1. The garden is, knock on wood, doing really well. I harvested enough peas and chard yesterday for a meal, picked my first cherry tomatoes, and spied both an adorable wee fairy eggplant and two tiny yellow squash. 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