{"id":5680,"date":"2014-04-03T08:12:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T15:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=5680"},"modified":"2014-04-03T08:12:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T15:12:03","slug":"spring-has-truly-sprung-here-iris-are-sending-up-shoots-buds-on-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/spring-has-truly-sprung-here-iris-are-sending-up-shoots-buds-on-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring has truly sprung here&#8230;iris are sending up shoots, buds on trees&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>are increasing.<\/p>\n<p>The pond is now clear, clear to the bottom. All our fishes are happy. I can&#8217;t feed them yet.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m doing the final edit on the NEXT Foreigner book before writing the ending.<\/p>\n<p>The house is a mess. But we are bringing order out of that chaos. Slowly. While working on the garden and two books.<\/p>\n<p>Morning, and I hear birds singing&#8230;we don&#8217;t have the more colorful prairie birds this deep in the city, but I have my silly sparrows, and they&#8217;re back in the quince bush outside my window, in mating frenzy. They like our pond&#8212;they&#8217;re the cleanest birds in north Spokane; and they&#8217;re not afraid of the cats&#8212;who watch through the window. I miss our rosy house finches, but not the apartment where they visited. <\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll take my rowdy little browncoats, and enjoy them at very close range&#8212;only 3 feet from my chair. They&#8217;re not afraid of me, either. And they&#8217;re back every year. <\/p>\n<p>The quince is about to bloom: it&#8217;ll be pink when it gets the blooms going&#8212;monster bush, high as the eaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>are increasing. The pond is now clear, clear to the bottom. All our fishes are happy. I can&#8217;t feed them yet. I&#8217;m doing the final edit on the NEXT Foreigner book before writing the ending. The house is a mess. But we are bringing order out of that chaos. Slowly. While working on the garden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}