{"id":3887,"date":"2014-01-17T12:58:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T17:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=3887"},"modified":"2014-02-15T20:47:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T01:47:18","slug":"first-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/01\/17\/first-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"First Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go away, I say! Go!<\/p>\n<p>This thaw in January is a muddy mess.<br \/>\nMore snow, more shovelling, more<br \/>\nscarves more drippy nose and frozen<br \/>\ntoes are still to come.<\/p>\n<p>Such teasing is too cruel<br \/>\nrefusing orphans excess gruel<br \/>\nis not so melodramatic so<br \/>\ncruel as this \u2014 this slushy hope.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, we dopes, we know from bitter<br \/>\nsprings of other hopes that<br \/>\nhalf-a-dozen scattered thaws or eight<br \/>\nstill wait with pain to entertain. And freezing rain.<\/p>\n<p>So, go! I say, Go!<br \/>\nAnd what\u2019s the forecast?<br \/>\nSnow.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3888\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/screedsq.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3888\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3888\" alt=\"Screed Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/screedsq-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A(d) verse complaint<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid in the north, we had one Spring each year, in April. I got on my bike, and that was that. But here, in southern Ont. . . <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/01\/17\/first-spring\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,28,416],"tags":[958,461,57,276,107,63,991,77,163],"class_list":["post-3887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-screeds","category-snow","category-thoughts-below-ground","tag-featured","tag-humor","tag-humour","tag-irony","tag-seasonal","tag-seasons","tag-snow","tag-weather","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3889,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887\/revisions\/3889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}