{"id":1388,"date":"2014-03-22T17:43:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T22:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2014-03-22T17:43:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T22:43:15","slug":"finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=1388","title":{"rendered":"Finally!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring has been mighty slow in arriving, even if we&#8217;ve missed the last couple of big snowstorms. Even the sunny days have been cold, and my snowdrops have stubbornly kept their buds closed. Until today: sunny, warm, glorious. Even the snowdrops agreed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9196704@N07\/13338802275\/\" title=\"DSC01300 by Phiala, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3831\/13338802275_12e71787ab_n.jpg\" width=\"187\" height=\"320\" alt=\"DSC01300\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I spent the afternoon raking up the neglected autumn leaves, mostly so that my squill could get to the light. I found a few other signs of spring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9196704@N07\/13338952673\/\" title=\"DSC01307 by Phiala, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3812\/13338952673_3c47e7f93c_n.jpg\" width=\"204\" height=\"320\" alt=\"DSC01307\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9196704@N07\/13338961283\/\" title=\"DSC01310 by Phiala, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7124\/13338961283_8e1356a4a5_n.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"320\" alt=\"DSC01310\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m choosing to ignore the forecast for cold and snow, except insofar as I decided not to plant peas today. <\/p>\n<p>The cardinals and robins are carrying on in the mornings, fascinating the felines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9196704@N07\/13338491194\/\" title=\"image by Phiala, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7361\/13338491194_79b86df3de_n.jpg\" width=\"239\" height=\"320\" alt=\"image\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not so warm that sunbeams aren&#8217;t properly appreciated, though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9196704@N07\/13338505414\/\" title=\"image by Phiala, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3738\/13338505414_fd8b0a0e3b_n.jpg\" width=\"239\" height=\"320\" alt=\"image\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring has been mighty slow in arriving, even if we&#8217;ve missed the last couple of big snowstorms. Even the sunny days have been cold, and my snowdrops have stubbornly kept their buds closed. Until today: sunny, warm, glorious. Even the snowdrops agreed. I spent the afternoon raking up the neglected autumn leaves, mostly so that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,26,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-must-be-spring","category-pets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1392,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}