{"id":4854,"date":"2015-03-18T20:45:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T00:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=4854"},"modified":"2015-03-18T20:49:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T00:49:31","slug":"4854","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=4854","title":{"rendered":"Spring rituals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.<\/em><br \/>\n~Rainer Maria Rilke<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/e91bb7eed76186dfd20dbeedbc5f4305.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4855 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/e91bb7eed76186dfd20dbeedbc5f4305.jpg\" alt=\"e91bb7eed76186dfd20dbeedbc5f4305\" width=\"236\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/e91bb7eed76186dfd20dbeedbc5f4305.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/e91bb7eed76186dfd20dbeedbc5f4305-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOn the first day of March, a coworker from Bulgaria gave me this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balkanfolk.com\/news.php?id=43\">Martenitsa<\/a> made from red and white yarn to wear as a bracelet until I saw my first sign of the coming spring: a swallow, a stork, or a flowering tree. Wearing the Martenitsa in the meantime would assure me of good luck and health in the coming year. I&#8217;m happy to report that just yesterday, I found a suitably beautiful blooming tree on which to hang my lucky charm, as the Bulgarian ritual dictates. Winter is officially over!<\/p>\n<p>Have any spring rituals of your own to share? Ever heard of this one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ~Rainer Maria Rilke On the first day of March, a coworker from Bulgaria gave me this Martenitsa made from red and white yarn to wear as a bracelet until I saw my first sign of the coming spring: a swallow, a stork, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=4854\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spring rituals<\/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":[3,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854"}],"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=4854"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4868,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions\/4868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}