{"id":4261,"date":"2012-03-20T22:41:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T02:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=4261"},"modified":"2012-03-20T22:41:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T02:41:08","slug":"happy-1st-day-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/happy-1st-day-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 1st Day of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/spring.jpg\" alt=\"spring\" title=\"spring\" width=\"470\" height=\"629\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/spring.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/spring-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is what I was doing last year on the first day of spring. This year&#8217;s first day of spring was marked with rain, a long drive on a muddy gravel road (hoping the rain will wash the mud off my car), a few mundane tasks, and some art related work stuff. I was, however, greeted upon returning home after a long weekend away with a couple sunflower, thyme, and lavender sprouts in my little window garden. Fingers crossed that they don&#8217;t meet their demise under my auspice. I&#8217;m really trying to be extra mindful with them &#8212; it&#8217;s sort of self-training for future larger edible endeavors. I digress..<\/p>\n<p>\nThis year&#8217;s bunk winter is swaying my seasonal allegiances. Spring is pretty amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what I was doing last year on the first day of spring. This year&#8217;s first day of spring was marked with rain, a long drive on a muddy gravel road (hoping the rain will wash the mud off my car), a few mundane tasks, and some art related work stuff. I was, however, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4264,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/revisions\/4264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}