{"id":19983,"date":"2025-05-22T01:02:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T01:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?p=19983"},"modified":"2025-05-22T01:02:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T01:02:29","slug":"gratitude-for-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?p=19983","title":{"rendered":"Gratitude for rain&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>May 21, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am sure I am not the only one eagerly waiting for temperatures to rise and days to be dry here in Ontario, Canada&#8230; But there are always two sides to each coin. If you are a non-farmer, like myself, you may relish the warm, dry summer days. But for farmers these can be a crop killer. So it makes me think that we should all be thankful for the current rain, as it helps turn our environment lush and green after a long colourless winter. Just a thought that I had today and of course I have the perfect painting to pair it with. It may not be a full moon tonight, but what if it were? And what if it were a muggy summer&#8217;s day? Would you not be inclined to go outside, admire the moon and enjoy the lukewarm rain?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:33px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"511\" height=\"656\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-21-at-8.55.57-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-21-at-8.55.57-PM.png 511w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-21-at-8.55.57-PM-234x300.png 234w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-21-at-8.55.57-PM-19x24.png 19w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-21-at-8.55.57-PM-28x36.png 28w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-21-at-8.55.57-PM-37x48.png 37w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 21, 2025 I am sure I am not the only one eagerly waiting for temperatures to rise and days to be dry here in Ontario, Canada&#8230; But there are always two sides to each coin. If you are a non-farmer, like myself, you may relish the warm, dry summer days. But for farmers these can be a\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?p=19983\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2671],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists-blog"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Nicky","author_link":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?author=1"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?cat=2671\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Artist&#039;s Blog<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Artist&#039;s Blog<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 12 months ago","modified":"Updated 12 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on ","modified":"Updated on "},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on  ","modified":"Updated on  "},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19985,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19983\/revisions\/19985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}