{"id":311,"date":"2010-03-09T04:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:07:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:07:59","slug":"waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Waiting&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Mostly it&#8217;s quiet here as I wait for signs of Spring&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>but there&#8217;s been Red-Wings and Grackles the last few days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(still no Phoebe or Plover)<\/p>\n<p>but I&#8217;ve not been properly out, yet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(soon!)<\/p>\n<p>Winter ducks seem mostly gone from the places I know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Instead there&#8217;s this:<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold:  when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">  ~Charles Dickens<\/p>\n<p>There were a couple minutes at lunch when I closed my eyes and imagined it July.  That felt nice (and especially warm!)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still waiting for a day to inspire Spring-fever in me&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mostly it&#8217;s quiet here as I wait for signs of Spring&#8230; but there&#8217;s been Red-Wings and Grackles the last few days&#8230; (still no Phoebe or Plover) but I&#8217;ve not been properly out, yet&#8230; (soon!) Winter ducks seem mostly gone from the places I know&#8230; Instead there&#8217;s this: It was one of those March days when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=311\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Waiting&#8230;<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"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=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}