{"id":20331,"date":"2025-10-17T02:21:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/?p=20331"},"modified":"2025-10-17T02:21:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:21:53","slug":"i-live-in-a-world-in-which-rain-falls-on-the-bridge-at-noon-in-which-loneliness-is-never-lonely-for-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/17\/i-live-in-a-world-in-which-rain-falls-on-the-bridge-at-noon-in-which-loneliness-is-never-lonely-for-company\/","title":{"rendered":"I live in a world in which rain falls on the bridge at noon. In which loneliness is never lonely for company."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSCF3391.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSCF3391-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"As clearly as possible I\u2019d like to say:\" class=\"wp-image-20332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSCF3391-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSCF3391-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSCF3391-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSCF3391-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSCF3391.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">As clearly as possible I\u2019d like to say:<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSCF3413.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSCF3413-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"my soul is as plain as a fallen leaf on a sidewalk\u2014as useless, and as beautiful. \u2014Jim Moore\" class=\"wp-image-20333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSCF3413-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSCF3413-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSCF3413-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSCF3413-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSCF3413.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">my soul is as plain as a fallen leaf on a sidewalk\u2014as useless, and as beautiful.<br\/><em>\u2014Jim Moore<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSCF3391.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20334,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20331\/revisions\/20334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}