{"id":4223,"date":"2016-02-23T16:09:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T22:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=4223"},"modified":"2016-02-23T16:16:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T22:16:07","slug":"yes-it-crocus-time-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=4223","title":{"rendered":"Yes, it Crocus time of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>February 23, 2016 &#8211; by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sometimes it happens as early as January, this year it was late February but one sure sign of good things to come is the appearance of crocus which are always the first flowers to bloom nearly every winter (of course that does not count dandelions). \u00a9 2016 BlairPhotoEVV<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMGP0421.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4224\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4224 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMGP0421-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP0421\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMGP0421-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMGP0421-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/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 23, 2016 &#8211; by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor. Sometimes it happens as early as January, this year it was late February but one sure sign of good things to come is the appearance of crocus which are always the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=4223\">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-4223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223","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=4223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4226,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223\/revisions\/4226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}