{"id":553,"date":"2019-02-24T01:10:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T01:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/?p=553"},"modified":"2019-02-24T01:10:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T01:10:40","slug":"can-you-take-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/uncategorized\/can-you-take-shelter\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Take Shelter?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today I sat in my place from a distance, that distance <g class=\"gr_ gr_7 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Grammar multiReplace\" id=\"7\" data-gr-id=\"7\">being<\/g> my car. I sat inside and watched the rain pour down from the sky. I started to think &#8220;God, I hate the rain. This shit is annoying.&#8221; Sometimes I can get so caught up on how things affect me, that I don&#8217;t think how they affect the things around me; those things included nature. The trees, grass, land, and pond. I&#8217;m sure if nature could speak to us and had a voice, they would praise about how much they love the rain. However, I&#8217;m not so sure about the animals around me. I tried to walk my dog today, and she got <g class=\"gr_ gr_915 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear ContextualSpelling multiReplace\" id=\"915\" data-gr-id=\"915\">to<\/g> cold so I brought her back inside. I&#8217;m sure the worms inside the soil aren&#8217;t phased at all however.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"653\" height=\"436\" src=\"http:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Grass-Covered-Drops-Water-Rain.jpg.653x0_q80_crop-smart.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Grass-Covered-Drops-Water-Rain.jpg.653x0_q80_crop-smart.jpg 653w, https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Grass-Covered-Drops-Water-Rain.jpg.653x0_q80_crop-smart-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Why does my grass look greener after it rains? By: Tom Oder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I looked around me and as I glanced, I noticed puddles and the creeks around me overflowing with water. The earth around me couldn&#8217;t avoid the rain and take shelter, but I could. I guess the main difference between me and nature is I don&#8217;t like the rain. I&#8217;m sure nature has its limits and all with rain, they don&#8217;t want to be flooded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I sat in my place from a distance, that distance being my car. I sat inside and watched the rain pour down from the sky. I started to think &#8220;God, I hate the rain. This shit is annoying.&#8221; Sometimes I can get so caught up on how things affect me, that I don&#8217;t think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/uncategorized\/can-you-take-shelter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can You Take Shelter?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}