{"id":5752,"date":"2017-02-21T12:43:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T12:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/21\/february-in-arizona\/"},"modified":"2017-02-21T12:43:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T12:43:35","slug":"february-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/21\/february-in-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"February in Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">February brings to the Sonoran desert days so beautiful that one feels guilty even sitting on the back porch, half-outside, taking it all in, eyes playing over the spring green, lungs deeply enfolding blossom-laden warmish breezes.&#0160; One feels that one ought to be walking around in this earthly heaven.&#0160; And this despite my having done just that early this morning. &#0160; <em>Vita brevis<\/em>, and February too with its 28 days.&#0160; The fugacity of February to break the heart. &#0160;It&#39;s all fleeting, one can&#39;t get enough of it. &#0160;All joy wants eternity, deep, deep eternity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">And now I head back outside, away from this too-complicated machine, to read simply and slowly some more from <em>Stages on Life&#39;s Way<\/em> and to drink a cup of java to stave off the halcyon sleepiness wrought by lambent light and long vistas on this afternoon in the foothills of the Superstition Mountains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb097bc907970d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0083\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb097bc907970d image-full img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb097bc907970d-800wi\" title=\"IMG_0083\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February brings to the Sonoran desert days so beautiful that one feels guilty even sitting on the back porch, half-outside, taking it all in, eyes playing over the spring green, lungs deeply enfolding blossom-laden warmish breezes.&#0160; One feels that one ought to be walking around in this earthly heaven.&#0160; And this despite my having done &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/21\/february-in-arizona\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;February in Arizona&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}