{"id":519,"date":"2009-04-06T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=519"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:13:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:13:08","slug":"first-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"First beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_YcXlERVmPdE\/Sdl_z5PSDzI\/AAAAAAAADYo\/_XcY_nNQLuM\/s800-h\/firstbeauty.jpg\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321424964229926706\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 214px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/firstbeauty-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/em><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><em>&#8220;April can be lovely, spangled with bloom and the newest of young leaves. It can be, and usually is, melodied with the voice of song sparrow and robin, redwing and oriole. And the call of the Spring peeper is the very voice of April. But April can also be cold rain, raw wind and, on occasion, snow. The cruelest aspect of April&#8217;s tantrums, however, lies in the way it sometimes frosts our hopes and expectations. We want to believe in that myth of gentle April. We want May in April. We are tired of Winter&#8217;s cold leftovers. Given a taste of Spring in April, we want a full meal of it.&#8221;   <\/em>&#8211;Hal Borland<\/p>\n<p>Today was a lovely taste of Spring on an early April day.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;April can be lovely, spangled with bloom and the newest of young leaves. It can be, and usually is, melodied with the voice of song sparrow and robin, redwing and oriole. And the call of the Spring peeper is the very voice of April. But April can also be cold rain, raw wind and, on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=519\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First beauty<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519"}],"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=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}