{"id":174,"date":"2011-03-22T03:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:04:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:04:09","slug":"my-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"My spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mirroredpiplos.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"246\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mirroredpiplos-300x185.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><i>Did you ever chance to hear the midnight flight of birds passing through the air and darkness overhead, in countless armies, changing their early or late summer habitat? It is something not to be forgotten&#8230; You could hear &#8220;the rush of mighty wings,&#8221; but oftener a velvety rustle, long drawn out&#8230; occasionally from high in the air came the notes of the plover.<\/i><br \/>&#8211;Walt Whitman, Specimen Days<\/p>\n<p>The warming March sun and a faintly whistled &#8220;peep lo&#8221; lured me to Sandy Hook this weekend to greet the newly arrived Piping Plovers. Courting Woodcock the evening before, an Osprey making a bee-line up the coast and the season&#8217;s first Phoebe completed the day.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Spring!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you ever chance to hear the midnight flight of birds passing through the air and darkness overhead, in countless armies, changing their early or late summer habitat? It is something not to be forgotten&#8230; You could hear &#8220;the rush of mighty wings,&#8221; but oftener a velvety rustle, long drawn out&#8230; occasionally from high in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=174\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My spring<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,27,3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"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=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}