{"id":3113,"date":"2005-02-02T13:19:06","date_gmt":"2005-02-02T21:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/02\/jumping-the-gun\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T08:49:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T16:49:35","slug":"jumping-the-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/02\/jumping-the-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Jumping the gun?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/4178676\/\" title=\"Budding leaves, Seattle, WA\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3\/4178676_fffe2a61b2_z.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" alt=\"Budding leaves, Seattle, WA\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It feels so much like spring these days.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got bright and beautiful sunshine that&#8217;s actually warm when you step out of the shadows &#8212; warm enough that it&#8217;s tempting to ditch my winter coat and go back to my spring\/fall jacket.<\/p>\n<p>Green buds are showing on the tips of tree branches.<\/p>\n<p>All this, and it&#8217;s just barely into February. That just doesn&#8217;t seem right. Okay, so I&#8217;m not in Alaska anymore, where February tends to be the coldest and most bitter weeks of winter, but isn&#8217;t it just a bit early for weather like this, even here in Seattle?<\/p>\n<p>Whatever&#8217;s going on, though, I&#8217;m enjoying it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All this, and it&#8217;s just barely into February. That just doesn&#8217;t seem right. Okay, so I&#8217;m not in Alaska anymore, where February tends to be the coldest and most bitter weeks of winter, but isn&#8217;t it just a bit early for weather like this, even here in Seattle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}