{"id":267,"date":"2008-03-20T00:48:17","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T04:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/2008\/03\/20\/in-just-spring\/"},"modified":"2009-09-06T22:41:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T02:41:10","slug":"in-just-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/2008\/03\/20\/in-just-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"in Just-spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the official first day of spring.  Spring is my favorite season.  It contains several of my favorite events:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My birthday<\/li>\n<li>Mother&#8217;s Day<\/li>\n<li>Easter<\/li>\n<li>The end of the school year (most years)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also love the change in weather.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I get all jazzed up and happy.<\/li>\n<li>Everything seems better.<\/li>\n<li>The days are getting longer and brighter.<\/li>\n<li>School is winding up.<\/li>\n<li>Things smell better.<\/li>\n<li>Flowers are blooming.<\/li>\n<li>It is warmer.<\/li>\n<li>I can stop wearing socks.<\/li>\n<li>I can wear short sleeves with no sweater or jacket.<\/li>\n<li>New things come alive.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><font><\/font><\/p>\n<pre><font><font face=\"Courier,sans-serif\">in Just-\r\nspring       when the world is mud-\r\nluscious the little\r\nlame balloonman\r\n\r\nwhistles       far       and wee\r\n\r\nand eddieandbill come\r\nrunning from marbles and\r\npiracies and it's\r\nspring\r\n\r\nwhen the world is puddle-wonderful\r\n\r\nthe queer\r\nold balloonman whistles\r\nfar       and       wee\r\nand bettyandisbel come dancing\r\n\r\nfrom hop-scotch and jump-rope and\r\n\r\nit's\r\nspring\r\nand\r\n    the\r\n\r\n            goat-footed\r\n\r\nballoonMan       whistles\r\nfar\r\nand\r\nwee\r\n\r\n\t-- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.rice.edu\/%7Essiyer\/minstrels\/index_poet_C.html#Cummings\">e. e. cummings<\/a><\/font><\/font><\/pre>\n<p>Common date of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Equinox\" title=\"Equinox\">Equinox<\/a>. In <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astrology\" title=\"Astrology\">astrology<\/a>, <span id=\"RealTitleBanner\"><span id=\"RealTitle\"><strong class=\"selflink\">March 21<\/strong><\/span><\/span> the day of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Equinox\" title=\"Equinox\">Equinox<\/a> is the first full day of the sign of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aries_%28astrology%29\" title=\"Aries (astrology)\">Aries<\/a>. It is also the traditional first day of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astrological\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Astrological\">astrological<\/a> year; and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Astrology_Day\" title=\"International Astrology Day\">International Astrology Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the official first day of spring. Spring is my favorite season. It contains several of my favorite events: My birthday Mother&#8217;s Day Easter The end of the school year (most years) I also love the change in weather. I get all jazzed up and happy. Everything seems better. The days are getting longer <a href=\"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/2008\/03\/20\/in-just-spring\/\">Continue reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,6,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laundry-list","category-readingmaterials","category-weather-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}