{"id":3910,"date":"2015-02-11T11:41:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T17:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=3910"},"modified":"2015-02-11T23:36:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T05:36:13","slug":"hooray-for-the-first-flower-of-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=3910","title":{"rendered":"Hooray for the first flower of 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>February 11, 2015 &#8211; by John Blair, <em>valleywatch.net<\/em> editor<a href=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMGP0004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3911\" src=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMGP0004-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP0004\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMGP0004-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMGP0004-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For the last three days, I have spent some time outside the Valley Watch office looking to the ground for signs of new life. This morning was no exception. And lo and behold, there in its glorious white beauty was the first Crocus of the season. I look forward to the lavender, white and purple crocus each year as a sign that Spring is just around the corner. Today&#8217;s sighting confirms just that. Hooray for Spring!\u00a0Photo \u00a9 2015 BlairPhotoEVV<\/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 11, 2015 &#8211; by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor For the last three days, I have spent some time outside the Valley Watch office looking to the ground for signs of new life. This morning was no exception. And lo &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=3910\">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":[35,350,349,29],"class_list":["post-3910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crocus","tag-macro-photography","tag-spring-2015","tag-valley-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910","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=3910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3913,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions\/3913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}