{"id":8456,"date":"2018-10-12T01:47:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T06:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=8456"},"modified":"2018-10-12T04:58:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T09:58:58","slug":"time-in-the-park-doughnuts-and-autumnal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=8456","title":{"rendered":"time in the park, doughnuts, and autumnal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/45215089312\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"4 People (with a Scarf)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1963\/45215089312_6bccce6fcf.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"4 People (with a Scarf)\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Three beautiful things from my past week:<\/p>\n<p>1. My outdoor volleyball game was the early one, so it was neither rained on nor called for darkness. And then one of the teams in the late game had a couple tardy players, so I got to offer to fill in until they arrived.<\/p>\n<p>2. On our drive home, we were on a back road trying to get around some heavy traffic when Rudi discovered we were near a local doughnut shop, Donut Crazy, so we stopped in and bought a half dozen to try. Their chocolate glazed hearkened back to the way Dunkin&#8217; Donuts made them when I was a kid (when their name included the thing they actually focused their attention on).<\/p>\n<p>3. There were two maple trees along the highway &#8212; one in full technicolor glory and the second just about to enter it, in the moment where green turns to red that New Englanders know means fall is truly here.<\/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. 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