{"id":120,"date":"2007-01-23T14:53:47","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T21:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/?p=120"},"modified":"2007-01-23T14:53:47","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T21:53:47","slug":"signs-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Signs of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Already we can feel things changing.<\/p>\n<p>The petals (or are they the sepals?) on the witch hazel are longer and brighter than they were when they first appeared a few weeks ago.  The birds are singing different songs &#8212; already establishing pecking order and territory?  And plants are budding out everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the witchhazel again&#8230;  in all its glory!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" align=\"bottom\" alt=\"lovely long flowers on the witch hazel\" title=\"lovely long flowers on the witch hazel\" src=\"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/familypics\/blogpics\/jan07\/springhazel.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And one more sign, the real clincher:\u00c2\u00a0 a <strong>pair of robins<\/strong> are happily scouting the yard, lifting leaves for bugs and singing!<\/p>\n<p><em>But remember, it&#8217;s still two months to the equinox&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Already we can feel things changing. The petals (or are they the sepals?) on the witch hazel are longer and brighter than they were when they first appeared a few weeks ago. The birds are singing different songs &#8212; already establishing pecking order and territory? And plants are budding out everywhere. Here is the witchhazel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}