{"id":810,"date":"2009-12-15T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/12\/fresh-morning-winters-sweet-privacy.html"},"modified":"2009-12-15T05:00:47","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T05:00:47","slug":"fresh-morning-winters-sweet-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/12\/fresh-morning-winters-sweet-privacy.html","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Morning: Winter&#8217;s Sweet Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sun1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/84\/import\/sun1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;float: left\" height=\"50\" width=\"50\" \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<div>An interesting thought about winter, which is showing itself even before the solstice:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<font face=\"georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif\">There<br \/>\nis a privacy about it which no other season gives you&#8230;. In spring,<br \/>\nsummer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only<br \/>\nin the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches<br \/>\nwhen you can savor belonging to yourself.&#8221;&nbsp; ~Ruth Stout<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/fresh-morning\/\"><font color=\"#023d89\" size=\"3\"><strong>Need more morning inspiration?&nbsp; Read our entire Fresh Morning collection!<\/strong><\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting thought about winter, which is showing itself even before the solstice: &#8220;There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you&#8230;. 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