{"id":351,"date":"2008-06-17T06:26:48","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T12:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=351"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:01:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:01:14","slug":"early-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2008\/06\/early-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Early morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a morning person&#8230;it doesn&#8217;t matter what time zone I&#8217;m in or what time I&#8217;ve gone to bed, I am up with the chickens&#8230;maybe before.  This morning it was 4:25 a.m. And this time of year, it is getting light by then.  Sunrise is about 5:30 but there is light in the sky, behind the mountains, through the trees.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jun08\/TueMorningTreesA500375.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Karl and I walked down the driveway and across the front property line and back to the house through the front part of the woods &#8211; our usual beginning of the day little walk.  I carry my first cup of coffee (AND the pepper spray&#8230;) and enjoy the morning air, the birds singing and the quiet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jun08\/TueMorningTreesB375500.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"500\" style=\"width: 375px; height: 500px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We end up on the front porch where I like to sit for a moment and watch the day grow.  This late spring, early summer ritual is a joy to me and I&#8217;m grateful for every beautiful morning and also for the circumstances in my life that allow me to start my days in this beautiful place.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jun08\/TueMorningTreesC500375.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a morning person&#8230;it doesn&#8217;t matter what time zone I&#8217;m in or what time I&#8217;ve gone to bed, I am up with the chickens&#8230;maybe before. This morning it was 4:25 a.m. And this time of year, it is getting light by then. Sunrise is about 5:30 but there is light in the sky, behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,10,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-front-porch-musings","category-montana","category-nature","category-photos"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22082,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/22082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}