{"id":1119,"date":"2007-04-15T03:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-15T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:34:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:34:44","slug":"spring-beauties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1119","title":{"rendered":"Spring beauties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/IMG_2041.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5053463379998121410\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/IMG_2041-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">These small pinkish white flowers are litle more than half an inch across, but when you find a nice patch of them dappling a meadow or woodland the effect is lovely. These and squill were the most numerous wildflowers on the brookside trail that I visited today. Hal Borland says Spring Beauties are also sometimes known as Quaker Ladies and oldtimers might know them as Patience, though he claims to not know why. Could it be that they bloom just when we need patience the most in our wait for Spring?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Today&#8217;s weather gave no hint of the storm to come tomorrow.  Everyone seemed to have the same idea as me; to get out and enjoy the fresh air and sunshine while it lasted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I went to two spots today looking for early blooming flowers; one had lots (more pics to come) and another had none.  I don&#8217;t know enough about wildflowers to understand why that is, but wonder how to find more places where pretty groundlings like spring beauties bloom.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These small pinkish white flowers are litle more than half an inch across, but when you find a nice patch of them dappling a meadow or woodland the effect is lovely. These and squill were the most numerous wildflowers on the brookside trail that I visited today. Hal Borland says Spring Beauties are also sometimes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1119\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spring beauties<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}