{"id":4128,"date":"2011-03-14T00:10:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T04:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=4128"},"modified":"2011-03-13T21:40:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T01:40:29","slug":"glimpse-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=4128","title":{"rendered":"Glimpse of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DogwoodTwig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4129\" title=\"DogwoodTwig\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DogwoodTwig.jpg\" alt=\"DogwoodTwig\" width=\"462\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DogwoodTwig.jpg 600w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DogwoodTwig-263x300.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago a fierce thunderstorm blasted our area. The following morning the neighborhood was strewn with dozens of enormous broken branches\u2014all in bud. A little sadly, we brought home a few sprays and put them in water, the vases of bare twigs giving our table a poignant wintery appearance.<\/p>\n<p>The buds, unaware of their fallen state, are now confidently unfolding and bringing forth their hidden treasures, but in miniature. This one is from a pink dogwood tree. The four bracts that usually unfold to a 2&#8243; or 3&#8243; diameter are here only about 5\/8\u201d across. But still beautiful.<\/p>\n<p><em>Today is the birthday of Shakespeare and Company founder Sylvia Beach. For a sketch and a mini-bio, please see <a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=1006\" target=\"_blank\">Paris Memory<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/CakeBerries2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4131\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" title=\"CakeBerries2\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/CakeBerries2.png\" alt=\"CakeBerries2\" width=\"125\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a><\/em>Kara<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Centaur MT', 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: large;\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago a fierce thunderstorm blasted our area. The following morning the neighborhood was strewn with dozens of enormous broken branches\u2014all in bud. A little sadly, we brought home a few sprays and put them in water, the vases of bare twigs giving our table a poignant wintery appearance. The buds, unaware of<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=4128\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[83,82,47,72,77,46],"class_list":["post-4128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbook","tag-botany","tag-colored-pencil","tag-dc","tag-spring","tag-trees","tag-woodley-park"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4128"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4136,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions\/4136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}