{"id":13498,"date":"2024-03-16T17:25:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T00:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=13498"},"modified":"2024-03-16T17:25:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T00:25:14","slug":"reading-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2024\/03\/reading-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading spring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve made up a game to help get through March. It&#8217;s a game with myself to identify the earliest signs of spring, even when there seem to be no signs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main one I&#8217;ve noticed for sure is that the hazelnut catkins are getting longer and more yellow. The pollen is forming. I get some cheer from observing them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there are other signs out there waiting to be discovered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_8153-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13496\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_8153-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_8153-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Catkins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Mid-March<br \/>mind flooded<br \/>with memories of flowers<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_8152-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_8152-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_8152-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This morning\u2019s snowfall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made up a game to help get through March. It&#8217;s a game with myself to identify the earliest signs of spring, even when there seem to be no signs. The main one I&#8217;ve&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seasons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13508,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13498\/revisions\/13508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}