{"id":426,"date":"2007-09-24T21:36:06","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T21:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/redletters\/2007\/09\/hello-from-vaca.html"},"modified":"2007-09-24T21:36:06","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T21:36:06","slug":"hello-from-vaca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2007\/09\/hello-from-vaca.html","title":{"rendered":"Hello from Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Fall\u2026my favorite time of the year. A stranger comes to town.<br \/>\nOusting the heat of summer and brandishing a crisp, sharp, cool breeze that rustles<br \/>\nthe golden, auburn, leaves in swirls through the streets. Ah, there\u2019s nothing<br \/>\nlike it!&nbsp; There\u2019s change in the air and<br \/>\nit brings a sense of excitement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There are few better places to spend a vacation than the<br \/>\nmountain towns of <\/p>\n<p>Colorado<\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\nWe happen to be in Breckinridge enjoying this fall season. I wish you could see<br \/>\nit! The mountains look like they are ablaze with golden fire sweeping through<br \/>\nthe evergreen hillsides. A rare beauty that rejuvenates your soul. I\u2019ve done my<br \/>\nbest to capture some of the day so you can experience this with me (click the picture to enlarge)<br \/>\n. I hope it<br \/>\nplays a small part in helping you to slow down in the midst of a busy week and<br \/>\nenjoy the change this season brings.<a href=\"http:\/\/tomdavis.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/09\/24\/familyvac07_002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tomdavis.typepad.com\/tom_daviss_blog\/images\/2007\/09\/24\/familyvac07_002.jpg\" alt=\"Familyvac07_002\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;float: left;width: 305px;height: 228px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/tomdavis.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/09\/24\/familyvac07_012.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/tomdavis.typepad.com\/tom_daviss_blog\/images\/2007\/09\/24\/familyvac07_012.jpg\" alt=\"Familyvac07_012\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;float: right;width: 302px;height: 226px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomdavis.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/09\/24\/familyvac07_022.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/tomdavis.typepad.com\/tom_daviss_blog\/images\/2007\/09\/24\/familyvac07_022.jpg\" alt=\"Familyvac07_022\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;float: left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall\u2026my favorite time of the year. A stranger comes to town. Ousting the heat of summer and brandishing a crisp, sharp, cool breeze that rustles the golden, auburn, leaves in swirls through the streets. Ah, there\u2019s nothing like it!&nbsp; There\u2019s change in the air and it brings a sense of excitement.&nbsp; There are few better&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-swaziland"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hello from Vacation - Red Letters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2007\/09\/hello-from-vaca.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hello from Vacation - Red Letters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fall\u2026my favorite time of the year. 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