{"id":8516,"date":"2022-07-31T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/?p=8516"},"modified":"2024-12-20T23:02:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T05:02:52","slug":"where-the-witches-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2022\/07\/31\/where-the-witches-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"where the witches meet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Austin we lived near a service road dubbed Adventure Alley for the dogs. For L, strapped to my back and later toddling, I called it The Wilds. It wasn&#8217;t much, really. But everything is big when you are small.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fast forward, I&#8217;d been meaning to get to this green space forever, mere minutes from our house. Something always came up. Covid. General exhaustion. But we made it this morning, early enough for pale lemon light, before the Texas sun sets everything on fire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In case there&#8217;s any doubt, the kid is game. One of his first compound words was &#8220;hiking stick.&#8221; He&#8217;d been saying it for a week before we figured it out. Hiking means adventure. Hiking means snacks. Hiking means parking your butt on every bench you pass, but first you must scale it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1071\" height=\"803\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/park_bench.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/park_bench.jpg 1071w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/park_bench-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1071px) 100vw, 1071px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We found where the witches meet,<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/witches_tree_01-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/witches_tree_01-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/witches_tree_01-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/witches_tree_01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/witches_tree_01-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">which is great, this kid is obsessed with Halloween. He even wrote his own song, Happy Halloween Town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmegholle%2Fvideos%2F567748681728494%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=267&amp;t=0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" width=\"267\" height=\"476\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I circled the copse as my kid devoured cherries. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1071\" height=\"803\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/witches_tree_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/witches_tree_02.jpg 1071w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/witches_tree_02-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1071px) 100vw, 1071px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1071\" height=\"803\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/witches_tree_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/witches_tree_03.jpg 1071w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/witches_tree_03-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1071px) 100vw, 1071px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1071\" height=\"803\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/witches_tree_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/witches_tree_04.jpg 1071w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/witches_tree_04-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1071px) 100vw, 1071px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All the week&#8217;s garbage fell out of my head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everything is small when wonder is boundless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/witches_tree_bench-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/witches_tree_bench-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/witches_tree_bench-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/witches_tree_bench-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/witches_tree_bench-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything is big when you are small.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17,21],"class_list":["post-8516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-narratives","tag-family","tag-halloween"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8516"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8659,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516\/revisions\/8659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}