{"id":3750,"date":"2009-09-15T21:32:05","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T03:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:05:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:05:34","slug":"shorter-days-longer-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2009\/09\/shorter-days-longer-nights\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorter days, longer nights."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"Large\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep09\/Dusk4279.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep09\/Dusk4279W.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"450\" style=\"width: 650px; height: 450px\" title=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Slightly less than a week from the Fall equinox and sunset is now at 7:45 or thereabouts &#8211; 2 hours later than mid-summer.  And it goes from light to dusk to dark faster with the lower sun angle.  While the temperatures have been trying to imitate summer reaching into the low to mid-80&#8217;s, it takes all day to get there and about the time it does, it starts back down.<\/p>\n<p>The days and evenings have been very pleasant and the nights wonderfully cool.<\/p>\n<p>Our last walk tonight started at 7:30 and by the time we dawdled around the loop it was nearly 8 and on the dark side of dusk as we came back through the woods.<\/p>\n<p>The work day, unlike the daylight, is lasting a bit longer.  But, a dinner break, an evening walk and I get a bit of a second wind.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"Large\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep09\/Dusk4300.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep09\/Dusk4300W.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"450\" style=\"width: 650px; height: 450px\" title=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Karl is not a fan of evening work hours as those are typically his time.  He prefers me to be on the floor with him, tossing a toy or just being near while he chews on a bone.  Tonight, after a bit of that, I snuck back to my chair and all was companionable for a little late work&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"Large\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep09\/Dusk4301.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep09\/Dusk4301W.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"450\" style=\"width: 650px; height: 450px\" title=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>..including Bob.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Mar09\/EndofPost64050.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"50\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 50px\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slightly less than a week from the Fall equinox and sunset is now at 7:45 or thereabouts &#8211; 2 hours later than mid-summer. And it goes from light to dusk to dark faster with the lower sun angle. While the temperatures have been trying to imitate summer reaching into the low to mid-80&#8217;s, it takes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-pets"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750","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=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22151,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions\/22151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}