{"id":6097,"date":"2018-02-05T16:32:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T23:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/05\/early-spring-2\/"},"modified":"2018-02-05T16:32:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T23:32:06","slug":"early-spring-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/05\/early-spring-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/early-spring.jpg' title='Early Spring'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/early-spring.jpg' alt='Early Spring' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have been fortunate to have had spring-like weather since mid-January. The cactus flowers are blooming and the desert critters are out and about acting as though it were spring.<\/p>\n<p>In the composite photo above, a curve billed thrasher looks around while sitting atop one of the bird feeders, a courtyard cactus is having many flowers and a house finch is trying out the new bird feeder in the mesquite tree in the back yard.<\/p>\n<p>Moving to Arizona was one of the best things we&#8217;ve ever done. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been fortunate to have had spring-like weather since mid-January. The cactus flowers are blooming and the desert critters are out and about acting as&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,12,39,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-flowers","category-pretty-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}