{"id":105,"date":"2008-03-04T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/2008\/03\/04\/105\/"},"modified":"2015-02-18T20:50:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T01:50:40","slug":"105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"The Beginning Of a \u201cS.A.D.\u201d Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve had a relatively easy winter here in New Jersey.  There were a couple of snowy days and a couple of cold snaps, when it went down to 7 or 8 degrees.  But we\u2019ve had nothing like the Siberian conditions experienced out in the Midwest, with weeks of snow and sub zero temps.  <\/p>\n<p>But even a mild winter gets me down.  There are still too many short gray days and long dark nights. I think that Seasonal Affective Disorder has been getting to me.  But sometime during this past weekend, it struck me that it\u2019s March.  Then the sun came out and the air had changed: the smell of plant life growing had returned, if only faintly.  There could still be an Arctic front and we could still get snow. But you know that the \u201cS.A.D.-ness\u201d will soon be coming to an end.  <\/p>\n<p>Back in December I posted a crude translation of a little poem about the start of winter, from some Russian lady\u2019s blog site. She marveled about how winter could be \u201ccozy\u201d and \u201cbright\u201d.  But the truth is that winter is more dimness and grunge, even when it\u2019s relatively tame.  Here\u2019s a pick that I took a few weeks ago which captures the feel of winter.  It also helps to explain why it feels so good when the gray finally starts going away.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/winter08.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve had a relatively easy winter here in New Jersey. There were a couple of snowy days and a couple of cold snaps, when it went down to 7 or 8 degrees. But we\u2019ve had nothing like the Siberian conditions experienced out in the Midwest, with weeks of snow and sub zero temps. But even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5183,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/5183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}