{"id":7824,"date":"2016-05-01T15:47:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T19:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=7824"},"modified":"2016-06-10T15:49:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T19:49:36","slug":"a-paean-to-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=7824","title":{"rendered":"A Paean to Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first of May, a poem by Moses ibn Ezra (1060-1138), Jewish philosopher, linguist and poet from medieval Andalusia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/May2016.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7826\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/May2016.png\" alt=\"May2016\" width=\"450\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/May2016.png 500w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/May2016-292x300.png 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe lawn has on embroidered robes,<br \/>\nThe trees are wearing checkered shifts,<br \/>\nThey show their wonders to every eye,<br \/>\nAnd every bud renewed by spring<br \/>\nComes smiling forth to greet his lord.<br \/>\nSee! Before them marches a rose,<br \/>\nKingly, his throne above them borne,<br \/>\nFreed of the leaves that had guarded him,<br \/>\nNo more to wear his prison clothes.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Moses ibn Ezra<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/CakeBerries2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7016 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/CakeBerries2.png\" alt=\"CakeBerries2\" width=\"125\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mary<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CakeGreen.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6393\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CakeGreen.png\" alt=\"CakeGreen\" width=\"125\" height=\"123\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Josiah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first of May, a poem by Moses ibn Ezra (1060-1138), Jewish philosopher, linguist and poet from medieval Andalusia. The lawn has on embroidered robes, The trees are wearing checkered shifts, They show their wonders to every eye, And every bud renewed by spring Comes smiling forth to greet his lord. See! Before them<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=7824\">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":[1],"tags":[76,17,19,72,3],"class_list":["post-7824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","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\/7824","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=7824"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7829,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824\/revisions\/7829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}