{"id":5836,"date":"2011-07-08T12:19:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T17:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=5836"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:11:19","slug":"summer-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/08\/summer-nights\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My perfect summer night. It was hot, and a trip to the pool would have been nice but I was tired after the calling hours and I didn&#8217;t think I had it in me to haul them to the pool for an hour after dinner by myself.<\/p>\n<p>We see a lot of this dramatic move from the girlie when things don&#8217;t go her way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_4507copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5838\" title=\"IMG_4507copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_4507copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_4507copy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_4507copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_4507copy-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So when Blake left for a neighborhood game of flashlight tag and sleepover, and Austin left with his buds for their evening bike riding around the hood, I decided a walk to get ice cream was in order.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_4534-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5839\" title=\"IMG_4534 copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_4534-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_4534-copy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_4534-copy-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And fortunately dad rolled in and joined us<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_4536.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5840\" title=\"IMG_4536\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_4536.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_4536.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_4536-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple of ice cream cones later we walked back home. And I was reminded why I love where we live. Even after a brutal winter and non-existent Spring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_4538-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5841\" title=\"IMG_4538 copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_4538-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_4538-copy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_4538-copy-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And that my friends, is a perfect summer night<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_4543copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5842\" title=\"IMG_4543copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_4543copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_4543copy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_4543copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_4543copy-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My perfect summer night. It was hot, and a trip to the pool would have been nice but I was tired after the calling hours and I didn&#8217;t think I had it in me to haul them to the pool for an hour after dinner by myself. We see a lot of this dramatic move from the girlie when things don&#8217;t go her way. So when Blake left for a neighborhood game of flashlight tag and sleepover, and Austin left with his buds for their evening bike riding around the hood, I decided a walk to get ice cream was in order. And fortunately dad rolled in and joined us A couple of ice cream cones later we walked back home. And I was reminded why I love where we live. Even after a brutal winter and non-existent Spring. And that my friends, is a perfect summer night<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_4506copy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18984,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836\/revisions\/18984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}