{"id":20764,"date":"2026-01-21T02:10:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T08:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/?p=20764"},"modified":"2026-01-21T02:10:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T08:10:39","slug":"if-we-stayed-with-each-other-long-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/21\/if-we-stayed-with-each-other-long-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"If we stayed with each other long enough"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5690.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5690.jpg\" alt=\"to see the seasons return, to see the young animals\" class=\"wp-image-20765\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">to see the seasons return, to see the young animals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5703.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5703.jpg\" alt=\"and the opening of peonies and summer heat.\" class=\"wp-image-20766\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">and the opening of peonies and summer heat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5748.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5748.jpg\" alt=\"Then we could make sense of the hawk\u2019s calm\" class=\"wp-image-20767\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Then we could make sense of the hawk\u2019s calm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5761.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5761.jpg\" alt=\"or the deer all lowering their heads\" class=\"wp-image-20769\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">or the deer all lowering their heads<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5764.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5764.jpg\" alt=\"again and continuing to eat.\u2014Linda Gregg\" class=\"wp-image-20768\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">again and continuing to eat<br\/><em>\u2014Linda Gregg<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20767,"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-20764","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\/2026\/01\/DSCF5748.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20764","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=20764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20770,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20764\/revisions\/20770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}