{"id":3377,"date":"2011-09-04T23:12:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T23:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=3377"},"modified":"2011-09-04T23:12:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T23:12:03","slug":"summer-draws-to-a-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/summer-draws-to-a-close","title":{"rendered":"Summer draws to a close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/hanworth2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3385\" title=\"hanworth2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/hanworth2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/hanworth2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/hanworth2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/hanworth2-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/hanworth2-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summer is drawing to a close. It&#8217;s a significant time of year for me.<\/p>\n<p>Living here in the UK, our summers are relatively short. I love being outdoors, and autumn heralds a retreat indoors. It&#8217;s the time of year when, instead of looking forward, you begin to look back on the year so far, and forwards to the next season. A transition time. The new term, with a rush towards the Christmas season.<\/p>\n<p>The boys go back to school this coming week, and the week after I begin my travelling again (I avoid travel when they are both at home). In September I am heading off to Portugal, Russia and Norway in quick succession, then to New Zealand again in October.<\/p>\n<p>When you are a freelancer, nothing is terribly predictable. You just hope that enough good, paying work comes in to meet the bills. I try to balance my work life between good paying gigs, and gigs that don&#8217;t pay so well but which are worthwhile and stimulating. If I break even, and I help the good guys to win, then I am happy.<\/p>\n<p>Pictured above is Hanworth Park earlier this evening. It&#8217;s our closest dog walking patch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is drawing to a close. It&#8217;s a significant time of year for me. Living here in the UK, our summers are relatively short. I love being outdoors, and autumn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3386,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions\/3386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}