{"id":8898,"date":"2011-09-04T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=8898"},"modified":"2011-09-05T04:49:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T04:49:05","slug":"tall-trees-the-first-shy-blush-of-autumn-scranton-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2011\/09\/04\/tall-trees-the-first-shy-blush-of-autumn-scranton-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"Tall Trees &#8211; The First Shy Blush of Autumn &#8211; Scranton, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/nepa\/scranton_tall_trees_overpass.jpg?resize=570%2C321\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"321\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>The first shy blush of autumn<br \/>\nFlushed across the long faces<br \/>\nOf lush &amp; lumbering late summer maples<br \/>\nFraming the valleys near North Scranton.<\/h4>\n<h4>Rocky bluffs along the byways<br \/>\nStill bleed from the blinding torrents of Irene,<br \/>\nShiny and black in the skewed &amp; slanting sun.<\/h4>\n<h4>Rebounding registrants reconnoiter their rolling reflections<br \/>\nReturning from respites at home<br \/>\nOr remote retreats with relatives.<\/h4>\n<h4>Cars flashing past these sedimentary mirrors-<br \/>\nSurfaces which sometimes reveal fossil shells &amp; skeletons<br \/>\nFrom a sometime Cenozoic life perhaps<br \/>\nOnce a pre-Sargassoan northwestern sea floor.<\/h4>\n<h4>Within weeks a bashful blush becomes a crimson flood<br \/>\nBordering on bittersweet, burnt orange and soon ochre-<br \/>\nAn evanescent process but picoseconds compared<br \/>\nTo the protracted persistence from primordial progressions<br \/>\nOf paleolithic petrification.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first shy blush of autumn Flushed across the long faces Of lush &amp; lumbering late summer maples Framing the valleys near North Scranton. Rocky bluffs along the byways Still bleed from the blinding torrents of Irene, Shiny and black in the skewed &amp; slanting sun. Rebounding registrants reconnoiter their rolling reflections Returning from respites [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2013,939,1071,2012,2014,1353,1538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autumn","category-maples","category-nepa","category-overpasses","category-passing-of-time","category-scranton","category-trainbridge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-2jw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}