{"id":771,"date":"2008-02-21T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/thursday-february-21-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-02-21T14:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T19:37:00","slug":"thursday-february-21-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/thursday-february-21-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday February 21, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photo.xanga.com\/smilesbymiles\/03851174763628\/photo.html\" target=_blank><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px\" alt=\"a taste of Spring 2007\" src=\"http:\/\/x03.xanga.com\/851c450571535174763628\/m133008766.jpg\" width=580><\/a> <span style=\"WIDTH: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><font face=Arial size=4>Why is it that we can have a relatively mild winter and then when it&#8217;s the end of February and we are all dreaming of Spring just around the corner, it turns cold?&nbsp;&nbsp;All I really want is to thaw from the inside out.&nbsp; I want to look out the window and not shiver at a barren, whithered landscape.&nbsp; I want to walk out the lane and exclaim over new green leaf buds on the butterfly bushes I planted last fall.&nbsp; I want to get into the car without dragging along another ten pounds and three square feet of bulky coat.&nbsp; I want to sit through church without shivering.&nbsp; I want to get out of the shower without shivering.&nbsp; I want to think subs instead of soup.&nbsp; I want to see vibrant green grass and blue skies and yellow daffodils and pink tulips.&nbsp; I want to see the windows open and hear the birds sing.&nbsp; I want to walk barefoot in the garden and drop seeds into the ground.&nbsp; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=Arial size=4>Instead we had snow flurries yesterday and there is ice predicted for tomorrow.&nbsp; And so I&#8217;m looking at pictures from last Spring and thinking about doing some sewing.&nbsp; To whoever said, &#8220;If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?&#8221;&nbsp; The answer is yes.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it that we can have a relatively mild winter and then when it&#8217;s the end of February and we are all dreaming of Spring just around the corner,&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,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39ynQ-cr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}