{"id":2796,"date":"2010-02-25T12:07:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T16:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2010-02-25T12:07:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T16:07:50","slug":"the-first-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=2796","title":{"rendered":"The first signs&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2799\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?attachment_id=2799\"><\/a>Where man sees but withered leaves,<br \/>\nGod sees sweet flowers growing.<br \/>\n~Albert Laighton<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2798\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?attachment_id=2798\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2798\" title=\"signs-of-spring-20101\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/signs-of-spring-20101.jpg\" alt=\"signs-of-spring-20101\" width=\"510\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/signs-of-spring-20101.jpg 510w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/signs-of-spring-20101-300x251.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/signs-of-spring-20101-450x377.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looks like we were spared the snow during this new storm.\u00a0 I&#8217;m thinking of you, my friends, further North who have did get a fresh round of it!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The other day while I was walking the dogs, I couldn&#8217;t believe what I saw.\u00a0 There, in one of the few snow-less patches of dirt, were some of the first signs of <em><strong>Spring<\/strong><\/em>!\u00a0 Oh what a happy day! \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Spring is my favorite time of year, so I am cherishing every little sign that it is around the corner.\u00a0 I know it&#8217;s still only February&#8230;.but still, such a beautiful sight!<\/p>\n<p>Are you too buried in snow to see any signs of Spring, or are there little buds popping up in your neck of the woods?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2799\" title=\"siggie14\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/siggie14.png\" alt=\"siggie14\" width=\"138\" height=\"75\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing. ~Albert Laighton Looks like we were spared the snow during this new storm.\u00a0 I&#8217;m thinking of you, my friends, further North who have did get a fresh round of it!\u00a0 The other day while I was walking the dogs, I couldn&#8217;t believe what I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-and-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}