{"id":4114,"date":"2015-04-27T09:49:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T13:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=4114"},"modified":"2015-04-27T09:49:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T13:49:07","slug":"expecting-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/expecting-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Expecting Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4115\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/forsythiaapril2015.jpg\" alt=\"forsythiaapril2015\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/forsythiaapril2015.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/forsythiaapril2015-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/forsythiaapril2015-250x333.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>We have forsythia. I doubt\u00a0<br \/>any sign of spring and warm\u00a0<br \/>days ahead could wax\u00a0<br \/>more distinctive. The blast\u00a0<br \/>of yellow is both defiant\u00a0<br \/>and joyful, a snub\u00a0<br \/>of the nose to winter past\u00a0<br \/>and a gauntlet to summer.\u00a0<br \/>As I drove south to New Haven\u00a0<br \/>yesterday, the roadside trees\u00a0<br \/>went from leafless\u00a0<br \/>to budding green,\u00a0<br \/>predicting over distance\u00a0<br \/>what will happen in time\u00a0<br \/>here in my own yard.<br \/>I hope.<br \/>Once the leaves burgeon<br \/>and the world transforms,<br \/>I\u2019ll quickly switch to denial<br \/>about the six preceding months of gray,<br \/>but we are not there yet.<br \/>We teeter.<br \/>Will it be a few days?<br \/>A week?<br \/>Soon, in any case.<br \/>For now, I have forsythia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have forsythia. I doubt\u00a0any sign of spring and warm\u00a0days ahead could wax\u00a0more distinctive. The blast\u00a0of yellow is both defiant\u00a0and joyful, a snub\u00a0of the nose to winter past\u00a0and a gauntlet to summer.\u00a0As I drove south to New Haven\u00a0yesterday, the roadside trees\u00a0went from leafless\u00a0to budding green,\u00a0predicting over distance\u00a0what will happen in time\u00a0here in my own yard.I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4114"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4121,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions\/4121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}