{"id":1227,"date":"2006-12-27T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:48:00","slug":"year-in-review-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1227","title":{"rendered":"Year in review meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><em>From Patrick at <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/hawkowl.blogspot.com\/\"><em>The Hawk Owl&#8217;s Nest<\/em><\/a><em>. The idea is to post the first sentence of the first post of each month.<\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">It occured to me today that I hadn&#8217;t yet posted a photo of my first bunny, Miss Buns. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1584\">More<\/a>&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Here comes February, a little girl with her first valentine, a red bow in her wind-blown hair, a kiss waiting on her lips, a tantrum just back of her laughter. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1572\">More from Borland<\/a>&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievious smile, mud on her shoes and a laugh in her voice. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1551\">More from Borland<\/a>&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">April Fool&#8217;s Day is usually when we resume feeding the goldfish, using cheerios at first, because they&#8217;re easily digested. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1509\">More<\/a>&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">When I was a newly-minted master gardener I went out and bought two great reference books so that I would sound smart when answering questions on the helpline or during community events where we volunteer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1474\">More<\/a>&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">June is the year at the altar, a bride with a bouquet of roses and forget-me-nots, veiled with morning mist and jeweled with dew, gowned with sunrise and romantic as a full moon. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1443\">More from Borland<\/a>&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">My friend Michelle sent this along to me tonight &#8211; can you imagine watering all these pots? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1413\">More<\/a>&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">August is the year at early harvest, a farm wife with a baby napping in the crib, a preserving kettle on the stove, fryers in the freezer, new potatoes in the pot, and a husband in the hayfield baling the second cutting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1381\">More from Borland<\/a>&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Can I rant a little about work? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1348\">More ranting<\/a>&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">This month&#8217;s edition of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/festivalofthetrees.wordpress.com\/about\/\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">The Festival of the Trees<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">, celebrating trees and tree-ish things, is up at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoardedordinaries.com\/archives\/000918.html\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Hoarded Ordinaries<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1316\">More<\/a>&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">November is the aging year, a woman whose Springtime children have grown and gone their way but whose hair is often spangled, whose gray eyes are often alight, and whose dress of grays and browns is neither dour nor dowdy. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1283\">More from Borland<\/a>&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">December is the year in age and wisdom, a woman with starlight in her frosted hair and a snowflake on her cheek and a sprig of holly on her coat. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1252\">More from Borland<\/a>&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">A new year of blogging will soon be upon us and with it the challenge of 365 days worth of posts.  Some days it&#8217;s so easy; on others I&#8217;m glad to have the regular weekly or monthly fixtures like the Borland posts or the bunny fixes that don&#8217;t require very much thought.  I haven&#8217;t decided yet what I&#8217;ll do instead next year, but will have to come up with something besides Borland&#8217;s monthly musings, as much as I enjoy them.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Patrick at The Hawk Owl&#8217;s Nest. The idea is to post the first sentence of the first post of each month.It occured to me today that I hadn&#8217;t yet posted a photo of my first bunny, Miss Buns. More&#8230;Here comes February, a little girl with her first valentine, a red bow in her wind-blown &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1227\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Year in review meme<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227"}],"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=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}