{"id":734,"date":"2011-03-21T17:02:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T22:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=734"},"modified":"2011-03-21T17:02:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T22:02:59","slug":"its-really-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s really here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only is spring official in the northern hemisphere, it&#8217;s <i>apparent<\/i> in my yard.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly everything is doing its thing.<\/p>\n<p>The snowdrops are in full swing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2011\/snowdrops20110321.jpg\" alt=\"snowdrops\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The tulips shot up while I wasn&#8217;t looking, and so did the daffodils.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2011\/mix20110321.jpg\" alt=\"tulips and daffodils\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Given a year to get established, the Dutch tulips are up much earlier than they were <a href=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=517\">last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2011\/tulip20110321.jpg\" alt=\"tulip shoot\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Why do I post pictures of so many flowers and such? So I can refer to them later! My blog archive says the tulips are doing well, but the tiny iris should be blooming by now, and that on this weekend last year I <a href=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=525\">put the peas in the ground<\/a>. I think that will be a project for next weekend. <\/p>\n<p>We had a thunderstorm early this morning, but the sun soon appeared, sparkling on the wet flowers. That should speed things along nicely. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2011\/crocuswhite20110321.jpg\" alt=\"white crocus\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2011\/crocuspurple20110321.jpg\" alt=\"purple crocus\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The only string stuff I did this weekend was dyeing silk. I would have thought everyone I know is tired of silk pictures by now (I refuse to accept that ANYONE could get tired of tulip pictures), but apparently not. So <i>by request<\/i>, a horrible picture of wet silk straight out of the final rinse.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2011\/silk20110321.jpg\" alt=\"dyed silk\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only is spring official in the northern hemisphere, it&#8217;s apparent in my yard. Suddenly everything is doing its thing. The snowdrops are in full swing. The tulips shot up while I wasn&#8217;t looking, and so did the daffodils. Given a year to get established, the Dutch tulips are up much earlier than they were [&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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","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=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}