{"id":275,"date":"2010-05-29T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2017-08-19T22:57:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T02:57:16","slug":"today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birds are still singing;<\/p>\n<p>the trees are long past their first delicate greening.<\/p>\n<p>Peepers at the roadside are suddenly quiet.<\/p>\n<p>The northward surge of Spring is past us now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_3383.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476774157160074002\" class=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_3383-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Summer flowers are blooming;<\/p>\n<p>Canada Mayflowers put on quite a show this year<\/p>\n<p>and I found my first blooming Starflower<\/p>\n<p>(but the photo was awful!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_3356.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476776465900526306\" class=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_3356-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Birds are looking for homes<\/p>\n<p>in boxes and under bridges,<\/p>\n<p>gathering twigs and feathers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_3399.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476776277316212866\" class=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_3399-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Or building nests<\/p>\n<p>from vines and rootlets<\/p>\n<p>and whatever magic things they can weave together.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_3353.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476776694968187698\" class=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_3353-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>They&#8217;re making babies.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Lots and lots of babies!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m planting flowers of my own<\/p>\n<p>and reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Brief-Wondrous-Life-Oscar-Wao\/dp\/1594483299\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1275162919&amp;sr=8-1\">books<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(and remembering how much I love the poetry of the Spanish language.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m checking-off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=359\">lists<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and working on this year&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a big one!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m planning a very private party to celebrate<\/p>\n<p>and wanting to wander some, to contemplate<\/p>\n<p>and squander time, letting it pass ungathered and unregretted.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no pictures yet to share.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/div>\n<p>What&#8217;re you up to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birds are still singing; the trees are long past their first delicate greening. Peepers at the roadside are suddenly quiet. The northward surge of Spring is past us now. Summer flowers are blooming; Canada Mayflowers put on quite a show this year and I found my first blooming Starflower (but the photo was awful!) Birds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Today<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,10,4,2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"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=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5182,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/5182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}