{"id":36691,"date":"2021-10-25T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=36691"},"modified":"2021-10-25T08:20:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T12:20:00","slug":"forest-for-the-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/10\/25\/forest-for-the-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest for the Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Untitled\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/51626898354\/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\/51626898354_83bf80bc44_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>I&#8217;ve been heading to a few local parks and squares in Philadelphia hoping to be awed by an Autumnal spectacle of brilliant color as if the whole area was on fire. It hasn&#8217;t really happened at least not yet. There may be a few leaves changing color here and there, but nothing to write home about. The above tree was the exception. This was on the sidewalk on my way to Jefferson Square, and it was brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been heading to a few local parks and squares in Philadelphia hoping to be awed by an Autumnal spectacle of brilliant color as if the whole area was on fire. It hasn&#8217;t really happened at least not yet. There &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/10\/25\/forest-for-the-trees\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2093,3809],"tags":[4206,797,854,1101],"class_list":["post-36691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography-2","category-south-philly-safari","tag-colors","tag-fall","tag-leaves","tag-tree"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9xN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36695,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/10\/30\/a-touch-of-green\/","url_meta":{"origin":36691,"position":0},"title":"A Touch of Green","author":"Joe","date":"October 30, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"See, Jim, same tree, not all red! This is for Jim Curtis, friend to the site and one hell of a writer. You can find his books, novellas, novelettes and short stories HERE or find his daily musings at his website.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Photography&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Photography","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/photography-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"With just a touch of green","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51627109015_8a7afcc01d_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51627109015_8a7afcc01d_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51627109015_8a7afcc01d_z.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":42058,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/11\/26\/the-falling-leaves\/","url_meta":{"origin":36691,"position":1},"title":"The Falling Leaves","author":"Joe","date":"November 26, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"My Dad discovered the consequences of moving from South Philadelphia to South Jersey in the form of tons of leaves each Autumn. 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This year we decided to go with the Evergleam aluminum Christmas tree. It was manufactured in Manitowoc, Wisconsin in 1958. They were sold in Montgomery Ward catalogs and a six foot tree like ours went for $100 - a lot of money back then! 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I've probably taken thousands of photographs both analog and digital of this park since I started to visit it decades ago. 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