{"id":626,"date":"2005-04-19T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-19T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=626"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"i-dreamed-of-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2005\/04\/i-dreamed-of-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"I dreamed of rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had a dream that it was raining. Nothing else was happening in this dream, just rain.<\/p>\n<p>I think this is the 11th beautiful, sunny day in a row, they say it&#8217;s supposed to get over 80 degrees out today. I like sunny days, I can go for walks and work in my garden and enjoy being outside, but 11 days? Barely even a cloud in the sky? It&#8217;s weird.<\/p>\n<p>I miss the rain.<\/p>\n<p>I also miss the trees outside of the Univest Insurance office in Lansdale.<\/p>\n<p>Last week while walking I happened to overhead a man in overalls telling a man in a suit that &#8220;They never should have planted these trees here, they get too large, the trouble you&#8217;re having comes from the roots&#8230;&#8221; I thought it was sad that someone would not take into account how large the trees grow when planting them in front of a building, like all those poor trees in cities that look nice on a city block until their roots start breaking up the sidewalks and they need to be removed.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday while out on my walk at lunchtime I walked past a big line of trees, enjoying their pink flowers, and approached the Univest building.<\/p>\n<p>The trees were gone! Only piles of dirt where they had been remained. It&#8217;s now just a little bit harder to breathe here in Lansdale.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what they do with trees like that. Did they have to chop them up and tear them down? I&#8217;ve certainly never seen a live tree larger than 15ft be moved on a truck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had a dream that it was raining. Nothing else was happening in this dream, just rain. I think this is the 11th beautiful, sunny day in a row, they say it&#8217;s supposed to get over 80 degrees out today. I like sunny days, I can go for walks and work in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}