{"id":202,"date":"2008-02-17T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=202"},"modified":"2008-02-17T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T18:46:00","slug":"spring-has-sprung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/17\/spring-has-sprung\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring has sprung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/R7iBQnCh2FI\/AAAAAAAAAUw\/VvrcOUFiLWI\/s1600-h\/02_17_photo1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/R7iBQnCh2FI\/AAAAAAAAAUw\/VvrcOUFiLWI\/s200\/02_17_photo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168022694765123666\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/R7iBXHCh2GI\/AAAAAAAAAU4\/7kgrplmofKg\/s1600-h\/02_17_photo2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/R7iBXHCh2GI\/AAAAAAAAAU4\/7kgrplmofKg\/s200\/02_17_photo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168022806434273378\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/R7iBw3Ch2JI\/AAAAAAAAAVQ\/qFCpKhOq6h8\/s1600-h\/02_17_photo4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/R7iBw3Ch2JI\/AAAAAAAAAVQ\/qFCpKhOq6h8\/s200\/02_17_photo4.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168023248815904914\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/R7iBdXCh2HI\/AAAAAAAAAVA\/K_a6JgA1Fzw\/s1600-h\/02_17_photo3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/R7iBdXCh2HI\/AAAAAAAAAVA\/K_a6JgA1Fzw\/s200\/02_17_photo3.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168022913808455794\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/R7iBhnCh2II\/AAAAAAAAAVI\/e2BXvaJkbK0\/s1600-h\/02_17_photo5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/R7iBhnCh2II\/AAAAAAAAAVI\/e2BXvaJkbK0\/s200\/02_17_photo5.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168022986822899842\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday the Japanese magnolia had only buds on it; today most of the buds have bloomed. So I walked back to the tulip magnolias that grow by the fence to the back pasture, to find that I&#8217;d almost missed them blooming entirely. The camellias &#8212; double and single blossoms &#8212; are budding and blooming together. Our place looks like a park. I practically expect to see one of the ladies from Cypress Gardens to appear in all her hoop-skirted, pastel finery.<\/p>\n<p>I took these photos this afternoon with my new Canon digital camera. It&#8217;s cool. So far, I barely know how to use it.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we had a dinner party for eight. A good time, good people, good food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the Japanese magnolia had only buds on it; today most of the buds have bloomed. So I walked back to the tulip magnolias that grow by the fence to the back pasture, to find that I&#8217;d almost missed them blooming entirely. The camellias &#8212; double and single blossoms &#8212; are budding and blooming together. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/17\/spring-has-sprung\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spring has sprung&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-3g","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}