{"id":158,"date":"2006-02-03T10:44:28","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T17:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2006-02-03T10:44:28","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T17:44:28","slug":"spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Spring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_3651.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_3651.jpg','popup','width=700,height=466,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_3651-tm.jpg\" height=\"233\" width=\"350\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 3651\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_3652.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_3652.jpg','popup','width=700,height=466,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_3652-tm.jpg\" height=\"233\" width=\"350\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 3652\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_3653.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_3653.jpg','popup','width=700,height=466,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_3653-tm.jpg\" height=\"233\" width=\"350\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 3653\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brushing my teeth before the window, I noticed how hazy the horizon looked. Yesterday was so clear and sunny! And today, it looks as if we are covered in a thin veil of smoke. I had to stop brushing so I could look more closely. Squinting beyong the Live oaks, a patch of smoke caught my eye, lifting up between our lot and the one next door.<br \/>\nI spit into the sink and wipe my face.<br \/>\n&#8220;Damon, is this smoke?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He came into the room for a peek out the window, his toothpaste-breath blowing over the top of my head.<br \/>\n&#8220;Well, it looks like it. Wait&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And we both realized what it was simultaneously: clouds of <em>juniper pollen<\/em> releasing into the wind. <\/p>\n<p>I guess this means it&#8217;s Spring already?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brushing my teeth before the window, I noticed how hazy the horizon looked. Yesterday was so clear and sunny! And today, it looks as if we are covered in a thin veil of smoke. I had to stop brushing so I could look more closely. Squinting beyong the Live oaks, a patch of smoke caught [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-seeing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}