It was hot this afternoon when the sun was up. And running the hills was grueling. My pace couldn\u2019t have been more than a walk on that last climb.<\/p>\n
But now it was over. The sun had just set behind the hills. A breeze was blowing in the open windows of my car as I drove home.<\/p>\n
The sky was clear. The evening air was cool \u2026 ish. And the skyline of downtown caught the last rays of the sun. Er, no. Did I say caught? There was no \u201ccatching\u201d involved. It was far more than that.<\/p>\n
The last light of day reflected off the towers. A pink-orange-white bright light glistened and glimmered and grew to an intensity so bright that I couldn\u2019t stare. It was like\u2026 It was like… like the (wait for it) flame of a rocket<\/em>.<\/p>\n And then… at that very moment, KC and the Sunshine Band was playing on the radio. I reached down and turned the volume way up<\/em>.<\/p>\n The wind was blowing against me. The last light of day shined brightly. I bounced in my seat and sang with the song. And goosebumps ran down my arms.<\/p>\n And on that note\u2026 Let\u2019s start this conversation back up, shall we?\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was hot this afternoon when the sun was up. And running the hills was grueling. My pace couldn\u2019t have been more than a walk on that last climb. But now it was over. The sun had just set behind the hills. A breeze was blowing in the open windows of my car as I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,20,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3248"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3252,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions\/3252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}