{"id":42058,"date":"2023-11-26T09:05:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T14:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=42058"},"modified":"2023-11-26T09:05:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T14:05:12","slug":"the-falling-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/11\/26\/the-falling-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"The Falling Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Joe in the leaves\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/53341473952\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\" data-context=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53341473952_3bb6c2ee2a_z.jpg?resize=639%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Joe in the leaves\" width=\"639\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>My Dad discovered the consequences of moving from South Philadelphia to South Jersey in the form of tons of leaves each Autumn. We had a number of trees in our yard including apple, cherry and even a pear tree which all provided fruit, but would then dump piles of leaves deep enough to bury toddlers. My Dad was busily raking leaves when he paused to snap this photo around this time of year many decades ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Dad discovered the consequences of moving from South Philadelphia to South Jersey in the form of tons of leaves each Autumn. We had a number of trees in our yard including apple, cherry and even a pear tree which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/11\/26\/the-falling-leaves\/\">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":[31,2093],"tags":[110,797,854,1200],"class_list":["post-42058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-photography-2","tag-1960s","tag-fall","tag-leaves","tag-south-jersey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-aWm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21342,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/11\/20\/fall-on-south-broad-street\/","url_meta":{"origin":42058,"position":0},"title":"Fall on South Broad Street","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"November 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"A beautiful autumnal scene on an otherwise unspectacular section of Philadelphia's main drag.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Philadelphia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Philadelphia","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/philadelphia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fall on South Broad Street","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c2.staticflickr.com\/6\/5587\/30329756753_3430973708_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":36691,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/10\/25\/forest-for-the-trees\/","url_meta":{"origin":42058,"position":1},"title":"Forest for the Trees","author":"Joe","date":"October 25, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I'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. 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