{"id":172,"date":"2010-10-08T08:08:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T15:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/?p=172"},"modified":"2010-10-08T08:08:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T15:08:34","slug":"an-autumn-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"An Autumn Feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It is October and rehearsals are well under way.  We have been singing  since August and the old and new singers are beginning to sound like a real ensemble after singing together for six weeks.  We have had our usual concert cycle &#8216;dramas&#8217; but most have been nothing more than merely annoying. We will have a wonderful concert in about a month and then it&#8217;s on the the next event.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The angle of the sun is beginning to slant and the golden shadows I see from my kitchen window tell me it won&#8217;t be too long before the garden is covered in white.  I enjoy watching the seasons from my window&#8211;it reminds me where I am in my own life and is comforting to this Midwestern gal.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Autumn is my favorite season&#8211;bittersweet compared to spring, but still the beginning of something new.  The weather in Chicago is at its most beautiful&#8211;warm during the day with an intense sun and chilly when the sun sets  .  The leaves are beginning to color and brighten our landscape with patches of painted splotches. It is the time for new things as well as leaving the old behind.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>During our fall concert cycle, I feel a surge of happiness, of being able to do what I love, what I know and what means the most to me.  This is my favorite time to work with singers because anything seems possible.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is October and rehearsals are well under way. We have been singing since August and the old and new singers are beginning to sound like a real ensemble after singing together for six weeks. We have had our usual concert cycle &#8216;dramas&#8217; but most have been nothing more than merely annoying. We will have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/?p=172\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Autumn Feeling<\/span> <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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}