{"id":8045,"date":"2017-03-20T12:35:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T16:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=8045"},"modified":"2017-03-20T12:35:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T16:35:41","slug":"turning-from-chilly-winter-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=8045","title":{"rendered":"Turning from chilly winter ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first day of spring, a poem by Linda Pastan, and a painting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CrocusLaceF.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8046\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CrocusLaceF.jpg\" alt=\"Crocus&amp;LaceF\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CrocusLaceF.jpg 700w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CrocusLaceF-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CrocusLaceF-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Spring<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just as we lose hope<br \/>\nshe ambles in,<br \/>\na late guest<br \/>\ndragging her hem<br \/>\nof wildflowers,<br \/>\nher torn<br \/>\nveil of mist,<br \/>\nof light rain,<br \/>\nblowing<br \/>\nher dandelion<br \/>\nbreath<br \/>\nin our ears;<br \/>\nand we forgive her,<br \/>\nturning from<br \/>\nchilly winter<br \/>\nways,<br \/>\nwe throw off<br \/>\nour faithful<br \/>\nsweaters<br \/>\nand open<br \/>\nour arms.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Linda Pastan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/CakeWedding.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7491 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/CakeWedding.png\" alt=\"CakeWedding\" width=\"140\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lynn &amp; Donald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first day of spring, a poem by Linda Pastan, and a painting. Spring Just as we lose hope she ambles in, a late guest dragging her hem of wildflowers, her torn veil of mist, of light rain, blowing her dandelion breath in our ears; and we forgive her, turning from chilly winter ways,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=8045\">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":[64],"tags":[76,61,19,72,52],"class_list":["post-8045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting","tag-flowers","tag-oil","tag-poem","tag-spring","tag-still-life"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8045","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=8045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8048,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8045\/revisions\/8048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}