{"id":281,"date":"2008-05-26T14:11:09","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T19:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=281"},"modified":"2008-05-26T14:11:09","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T19:11:09","slug":"spring-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a little late with this post because I was worried that we would have another snow storm just after I posted it.  I still may be overconfident but I&#8217;ll take the chance.<\/p>\n<p>We had a very hard Winter this year and Spring was late in getting here.  But, as far as I can tell, it made it.  Here are a few views of things around the house.<a href=\"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/lilacs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-282\" title=\"lilacs\" src=\"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/lilacs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are the lilacs blooming along the road in front of us.  The fragrance was wonderful and every time we had a south wind you could smell them anywhere around the house.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-286\" title=\"housefrontspring08\" src=\"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/housefrontspring08.jpg\" alt=\"The front of our house\" width=\"440\" height=\"295\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a shot of the front of the house, with all the shrubery starting to brighten up.  I don&#8217;t know the names of these plants &#8211; maybe Jan will post a comment and identify them.  Off to the left are more lilacs and to the right is the apple tree in bloom.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-284\" title=\"appleblossoms\" src=\"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/appleblossoms.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"293\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The apple blossoms were prolific this year.  I hope that translates into a huge crop of apples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a little late with this post because I was worried that we would have another snow storm just after I posted it. I still may be overconfident but I&#8217;ll take the chance. We had a very hard Winter this year and Spring was late in getting here. But, as far as I can tell, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}