{"id":4104,"date":"2014-03-30T19:27:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T00:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=4104"},"modified":"2014-03-30T19:27:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T00:27:09","slug":"awaiting-a-new-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=4104","title":{"rendered":"Awaiting A New Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/earlyspringrain.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>Another winter, a long and tough winter, is finally over here in NJ.  But spring, with all her glory (yes, spring is very pleasant even in New Jersey), has not truly kicked-in yet.  We&#8217;re in-between seasons.  When the clouds grow dark, we no longer worry about shoveling snow.  Almost all of the snowpack has melted.  But the trees are still bare, and the brown grass and leaves from last autumn haven&#8217;t been replaced yet by fresh green shoots.  <\/p>\n<p>You can get the sense of it in this picture taken earlier today.  A rain puddle reflects the gray clouds, looking not much different from a January and February sky; and the reflected bare trees await their new green buds.  A half-rotted leaf from one of those trees remains, awaiting its ultimate assignment as mulch for a new season of growth.  The stage is set for another season of renewal, but for now, the damp chill remains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another winter, a long and tough winter, is finally over here in NJ. But spring, with all her glory (yes, spring is very pleasant even in New Jersey), has not truly kicked-in yet. We&#8217;re in-between seasons. When the clouds grow dark, we no longer worry about shoveling snow. Almost all of the snowpack has melted. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4106,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions\/4106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}