{"id":36447,"date":"2021-08-22T13:39:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T17:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=36447"},"modified":"2021-08-22T13:39:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T17:39:44","slug":"the-end-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/08\/22\/the-end-of-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The End of Summer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/51394475544\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51394475544_4dab27c47d_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The End of Summer\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Yesterday was the last day of swimming at the Murphy Pool at 3rd and Shunk in South Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the last day of swimming at the Murphy Pool at 3rd and Shunk in South Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[104,3809],"tags":[1753,2843,1590],"class_list":["post-36447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philadelphia","category-south-philly-safari","tag-pool","tag-south-philadelphia","tag-summer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9tR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45787,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/08\/31\/the-end-of-summer-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":36447,"position":0},"title":"The End of Summer","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"August 31, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The Sacks Pool bereft of water thus bereft of life. 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