{"id":20601,"date":"2025-12-21T01:47:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T07:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/?p=20601"},"modified":"2025-12-21T01:47:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T07:47:56","slug":"he-could-have-sworn-then-he-did-not-look-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/21\/he-could-have-sworn-then-he-did-not-look-back\/","title":{"rendered":"He could have sworn then he did not look back,"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PC200012-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PC200012-1.jpg\" alt=\"That no one had been following on his track\" class=\"wp-image-20602\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">That no one had been following on his track<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSCF5320.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSCF5320.jpg\" alt=\"Only the thing was that it made a better story\" class=\"wp-image-20603\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Only the thing was that it made a better story<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSCF5326.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSCF5326.jpg\" alt=\"To say that he had heard a sigh perhaps\" class=\"wp-image-20604\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">To say that he had heard a sigh perhaps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSCF5342.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSCF5342.jpg\" alt=\"And once or twice the sound a twig makes when it snaps. \u2014Donald Justice\" class=\"wp-image-20605\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">And once or twice the sound a twig makes when it snaps.<br\/><em>\u2014Donald Justice<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20604,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20601","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\/12\/DSCF5326.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20601","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=20601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20606,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20601\/revisions\/20606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}