{"id":19,"date":"2003-03-30T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-30T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewebgal.com\/wordpress\/?p=19"},"modified":"2003-03-30T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-30T09:30:00","slug":"weather-extremis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"Weather Extremis!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very odd doings outside. All week long it has been unseasonably warm, reaching 72-74 degrees by mid-day! Daffodils are on blooming everywhere, there are yellow slashes of Forsythia all over the neighborhood, its been a wonderful, optimistic time, even with the war news downtown. <br \/>\nFriday after work we bought 3 large rhodedendrons at Home Despot, and planted them before sunset. It was hot work in shorts and Tshirt. <br \/>\nSaturday we cleaned gardens, got rid of the leaves that fell in the winter to let the sprouting hastas and bulbs break free. Emma gave everything a good scoop of compost, and I raked most of the paths in the yard down to the mulch I spread last year.  4 big bags and 3 trashcans full of yard waste &#8230; another &#8220;hot&#8221; day, but dark clouds blew over by 5, a cold front from Canada. It rained overnight, and continued this morning as Emma left for Richmond. It was colder, too.  <br \/>\nAbout 20 minutes ago it started snowing &#8211; SNOWING! As if we haven&#8217;t had enough white stuff this year. The big magnolia at the end of the block is ready to bloom in outrageous splendor, and we get this freaky snowstorm! <br \/>\nAhh &#8230; I LOVE my D40Zoom Olympus digital camera  &#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/gfx\/photos\/033003magsnow.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[19]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/gfx\/photos\/033003magsnow34.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sunday closeup of the magnolia tree, buds covered with snow!\" \/><\/a> &nbsp; <a href=\"\/gfx\/photos\/033003blooms1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[19]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/gfx\/photos\/033003blooms2.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Weeping blooms\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"\/gfx\/photos\/032803magbuds.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[19]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/gfx\/photos\/032803magbuds34.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Friday closeup of the magnolia tree, ready to bloom!\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<b>As usual &#8211; click to enlarge &#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very odd doings outside. All week long it has been unseasonably warm, reaching 72-74 degrees by mid-day! Daffodils are on blooming everywhere, there are yellow slashes of Forsythia all over the neighborhood, its been a wonderful, optimistic time, even with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=19\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}