{"id":358,"date":"2009-03-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=358"},"modified":"2009-03-21T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T11:00:00","slug":"happy-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Happy Spring!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/ScI6cfJIyfI\/AAAAAAAABJ8\/pIQNAPNuqjs\/s1600-h\/Daffies.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 155px; height: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/ScI6cfJIyfI\/AAAAAAAABJ8\/pIQNAPNuqjs\/s320\/Daffies.jpg?w=584\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314874771321178610\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">The calendar indicates that finally here in the good ol&#8217; USA, it&#8217;s Spring.  The gardens are also beginning to indicate that it is Spring, too.  TG!<\/p>\n<p>The daffodils are in bloom, and look great.  We have over 10,000 daffodil bulbs that bloom from now until mid-April.  After the horrible events of September 11, 2001, my neighbors and I all got together and planted these bulbs along the ridge behind our houses.  The bulbs have matured and naturalized.  We enjoy a wonderful profusion of color &#8212; yellow, white, orange, multi-colored &#8212; every day for about a month.<\/p>\n<p>Great thing about daffodils, too, is that the pesky deer leave them alone.<\/p>\n<p>Happy astronomical first-full-day-of-Spring, everyone!<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The calendar indicates that finally here in the good ol&#8217; USA, it&#8217;s Spring. The gardens are also beginning to indicate that it is Spring, too. TG! The daffodils are in bloom, and look great. We have over 10,000 daffodil bulbs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=358\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}