{"id":7487,"date":"2015-03-20T06:41:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T10:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=7487"},"modified":"2021-05-31T16:32:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T20:32:50","slug":"today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=7487","title":{"rendered":"Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we received this gift two weeks ago, it happened to be the first day that actually smelled like spring, despite the wind rattling the shutters and the fire burning in the fireplace. <\/p>\n

Here is a Billy Collins poem to go with the sketch (which is a detail from March 3rd’s post). Happy First Day of Spring, everyone in the Northern Hemisphere.<\/p>\n

\"3.3SpringBouquet\"<\/a><\/div>\n
\n

If ever there were a spring day so perfect,
\nso uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze<\/p>\n

that it made you want to throw
\nopen all the windows in the house<\/p>\n

and unlatch the door to the canary\u2019s cage,
\nindeed, rip the little door from its jamb,<\/p>\n

a day when the cool brick paths
\nand the garden bursting with peonies<\/p>\n

seemed so etched in sunlight
\nthat you felt like taking<\/p>\n

a hammer to the glass paperweight
\non the living room end table,<\/p>\n

releasing the inhabitants
\nfrom their snow-covered cottage<\/p>\n

so they could walk out,
\nholding hands and squinting<\/p>\n

into this larger dome of blue and white,
\nwell, today is just that kind of day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/div>\n
\"CakeWedding\"<\/a><\/div>\n
Lynn and Donald<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we received this gift two weeks ago, it happened to be the first day that actually smelled like spring, despite the wind rattling the shutters and the fire burning in the fireplace.  Here is a Billy Collins poem to go with the sketch (which is a detail from March 3rd’s post). Happy First DayRead 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":[23,76,17,19,72,3],"class_list":["post-7487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbook","tag-festival","tag-flowers","tag-penink","tag-poem","tag-spring","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7487","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=7487"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9178,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7487\/revisions\/9178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}