{"id":556,"date":"2007-01-29T20:16:49","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T01:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/556"},"modified":"2007-01-29T20:16:49","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T01:16:49","slug":"trying-to-bloom-in-a-season-of-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/556","title":{"rendered":"Trying To Bloom In A Season Of Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walking home from work today, I was noting all the things that had been trying to bloom just a couple weeks ago.&nbsp; We had this very warm snap for a couple of weeks here in Baltimore, and now it&#8217;s below freezing again.&nbsp; I passed a honeysuckle bush that was covered in blossoms, all shriveled and wilting now in the bitter cold.&nbsp; I felt sorry for them.&nbsp; There you are, a little bud sleeping.&nbsp; And one day the warmth and sunshine wakens you, beckons you out, and you open up, extend your color to the world.&nbsp; And then it starts getting cold.&nbsp; <em>Hey&#8230;where&#8217;s my summer&#8230;???<\/em>&nbsp; But you don&#8217;t know that there is no summer here.&nbsp; And then the ice comes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking home from work today, I was noting all the things that had been trying to bloom just a couple weeks ago.&nbsp; We had this very warm snap for a couple of weeks here in Baltimore, and now it&#8217;s below freezing again.&nbsp; I passed a honeysuckle bush that was covered in blossoms, all shriveled and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}