{"id":69292,"date":"2011-10-30T21:26:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T01:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/69292\/winter\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T16:44:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T16:44:52","slug":"winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/69292\/winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Htu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70099\" title=\"Htu\" src=\"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Htu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Htu.jpg 390w, https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Htu-300x256.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ah&#8230;my winter is almost here&#8230;I feel giddy&#8230;I love the snow and cold&#8230;it&#8217;s when I walk.<\/p>\n<p>I wear what you can see on my page&#8230;my Homburg&#8230;long black gentlemen&#8217;s coat&#8230;my beloved leather gloves. I love the cold wind blowing my long hair about my face&#8230;I love the frosty bite on my flesh&#8230;the crunch of snow beneath my shoes.<\/p>\n<p>I walk&#8230;at night of course&#8230;through a very nice neighborhood that is oh so picturesque. Nice neat trimmed upper middle class homes&#8230;further down the street even multi million dollar homes. All nestled in snow drifts&#8230;their interior lights look warm and inviting&#8230;their outer lights adding just the right touch of wealth.<\/p>\n<p>I look in as I pass each one&#8230;sometimes I see middle aged couples wrapped in comforters watching television&#8230;other times a figure traveling to another room&#8230;vague paintings on walls&#8230;clocks&#8230;Ah ha ha ha the occasional family pet&#8230;many times they dash to the window to peer out&#8230;it&#8217;s as if they know I am there&#8230;watching. I never linger&#8230;I just keep walking.<\/p>\n<p>Can you guess what I see when I look into those warm inviting lights? I see falseness. I wonder what atrocities and horrors those warm lights mask. Surely they can not be as &#8220;Ozzie and Harriet&#8221; as they appear&#8230;no&#8230;no&#8230;that can not be. I often imagine the occupants running out as I pass and scream their horrible truths&#8230;confess to me what they truly are.<\/p>\n<p>Yes&#8230;I love walking on cold winter nights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking on a cold winter night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,14,6,28,44,17,10,21,837,11,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-family","category-friendburst","category-health","category-holidays","category-home","category-life","category-literature","category-nature-2","category-people","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116556,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69292\/revisions\/116556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}