{"id":2604,"date":"2012-02-03T12:45:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T18:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2012-02-03T13:02:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T19:02:21","slug":"we-continue-to-celebrate-the-early-arrival-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=2604","title":{"rendered":"We continue to celebrate the early arrival of spring!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Spring-2a1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2608 alignleft\" title=\"Spring 2a\" src=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Spring-2a1-586x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Spring-2a1-586x1024.jpg 586w, http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Spring-2a1-171x300.jpg 171w, http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Spring-2a1.jpg 598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/><\/a>February 3, 2012-Text and photos by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s supposed to be 60 degrees again today and that will surely bring out more new bugs and evidence that Spring is just around the corner. Will it stay? That is anyone&#8217;s guess but at least it is adding some color to the otherwise boring browns and grays that have been present for a couple of months now. And there is little chance for it to freeze again for at least another week.<\/p>\n<p>Are the seasons changing? Is climate change upon us?<\/p>\n<p>These are questions that science answers and the answer is yes. However, there continues to be massive denial because to face the truth would require significant moral retrospection that people who desire to waste precious fossil fuels simply refuse to undertake.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 3, 2012-Text and photos by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor.\u00a0 It&#8217;s supposed to be 60 degrees again today and that will surely bring out more new bugs and evidence that Spring is just around the corner. Will it stay? That &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=2604\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions\/2612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}