{"id":6499,"date":"2016-07-08T02:08:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T07:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=6499"},"modified":"2016-07-08T03:26:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T08:26:59","slug":"day-game-new-toy-feather-canyons-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=6499","title":{"rendered":"day game, new &#8216;toy,&#8217; and feather canyons everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three beautiful things from the first week of July:<\/p>\n<p>1. Taking a half day at work lets me sneak out to late afternoon ballgame. There was no line at Shake Shack, where they serve fancy versions of Blizzards. Going by myself means I can listen to the game on the radio under my headphones. Despite giving up a worrying number of runs, the Nationals win the game.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/28063572082\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Ice Cream at a Day Game in July\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c3.staticflickr.com\/8\/7440\/28063572082_74597fb280.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Ice Cream at a Day Game in July\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>2. Corey finds an air pillow from some package has drifted to the floor. He can now often be found using it as a back or head support.<\/p>\n<p>3. There have been some pretty phenomenal clouds in the past week:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/27490598674\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Lightning Storm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c3.staticflickr.com\/8\/7287\/27490598674_f89669810c.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Lightning Storm\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/28133688726\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Pink Sky at Night\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c7.staticflickr.com\/8\/7377\/28133688726_de66320630.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Pink Sky at Night\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/28133695766\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Clouds and Crepuscular Rays\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c7.staticflickr.com\/8\/7431\/28133695766_47f20c4ba0.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Clouds and Crepuscular Rays\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(The last shot also shows a decent example, if I say so myself, of <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencenetlinks.com\/daily-content\/8\/26\/\">crepuscular rays<\/a>, a rather ugly word for a delightful trick of light.)<\/p>\n<p>How about you? 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