{"id":1324,"date":"2011-04-11T13:15:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T19:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralroute2.com\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2020-12-22T13:33:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T19:33:13","slug":"spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/11\/spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We might get snow flurries later this week.<\/p>\n<p>The weather might turn cold again and be cloudy and dreary.<\/p>\n<p>We might still need to turn the furnace on in the house to take the chill out of the air.<\/p>\n<p>We may still need to wear layers of sweatshirts and jackets.<\/p>\n<p>We could end up needing to wear heavier boots and socks again to keep our feet warm.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8212; the crocuses are blooming! And that surely means spring has arrived. . .<\/p>\n<p>LeAnn R. Ralph<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1323\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ruralroute2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/RR2Crocus4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1323\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1323\" title=\"RR2Crocus4\" src=\"http:\/\/ruralroute2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/RR2Crocus4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/RR2Crocus4.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/RR2Crocus4-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crocus Spring 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1322\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ruralroute2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/RR2Crocus3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1322\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1322\" title=\"RR2Crocus3\" src=\"http:\/\/ruralroute2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/RR2Crocus3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/RR2Crocus3.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/RR2Crocus3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crocus Spring 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1321\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ruralroute2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/RR2Crocus2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1321\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1321\" title=\"RR2Crocus2\" src=\"http:\/\/ruralroute2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/RR2Crocus2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/RR2Crocus2.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/RR2Crocus2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crocus Spring 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1320\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ruralroute2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/RR2Crocus1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1320\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1320\" title=\"RR2Crocus1\" src=\"http:\/\/ruralroute2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/RR2Crocus1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/RR2Crocus1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/RR2Crocus1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crocus Spring 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1319\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ruralroute2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/RR2Crocus5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1319\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1319\" title=\"RR2Crocus5\" src=\"http:\/\/ruralroute2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/RR2Crocus5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/RR2Crocus5.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/RR2Crocus5-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crocus Spring 2011<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We might get snow flurries later this week. The weather might turn cold again and be cloudy and dreary. We might still need to turn the furnace on in the house to take the chill out of the air. We may still need to wear layers of sweatshirts and jackets. We could end up needing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,41,131],"tags":[133,232,231],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crocus","category-flowers","category-spring","tag-crocuses-2","tag-spring","tag-spring-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}