Dear readership,<\/p>\n
I recently had the opportunity to interview a fantastic person named Ben. He’s my brother; wise for his age. You might want to read what he has to say about the incoming season.<\/p>\n
Amelia: What does summertime mean to you?<\/em><\/p>\n Ben: It means freedom.<\/em><\/p>\n Amelia: Freedom from what?<\/em><\/p>\n Ben: Freedom from school, and having to do homework, and waking up early… all that sort of stuff.<\/em><\/p>\n Amelia: I agree.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n It is summer. Have the time of your lives in the sunshine, burning your skin to lobster red and cutting your bare feet on rocks at the lake. Using your freedom.<\/p>\n So. . .\u00a0text your friends,<\/p>\n bring caboodle,<\/p>\n drive your cars and take the poodle.<\/p>\n Soak in sun, and ice, and smiles,<\/p>\n Burning all your\u00a0homework files.<\/p>\n Summer is a chance to begin to know the beginning of people – their bare edges, and sometimes past the surface. Once you get a hold of the beginning (or the end) you can unravel the rest. As Ben says, summertime means freedom – and you’d be surprised at how different people act once they’re freed.\u00a0So hang out with some new people, strengthen your ties with old friends, and have a sweaty, liberated\u00a0time running wild.<\/p>\n Farewell,<\/p>\n Amelia<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear readership, I recently had the opportunity to interview a fantastic person named Ben. He’s my brother; wise for his age. You might want to read what he has to say about the incoming season. Amelia: What does summertime mean to you? Ben: It means freedom. Amelia: Freedom from what? Ben: Freedom from school, and…<\/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":[6],"tags":[92,143,29,241,8,108,35,34,134,73,365,364,18,117],"class_list":["post-1333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings","tag-dontusehashtags","tag-beginnings","tag-enjoyable","tag-family","tag-first-impressions","tag-friends","tag-humor","tag-laugh","tag-life","tag-love","tag-run-wild","tag-summer","tag-sun","tag-tips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WcVY-lv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}