{"id":4247,"date":"2011-03-30T16:55:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T20:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=4247"},"modified":"2011-04-04T16:12:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T20:12:37","slug":"carolina-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2011\/03\/carolina-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"CAROLINA SPRING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_4248\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4248\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tulips.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tulips.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tulips\" width=\"225\" height=\"251\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tulips.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tulips-71x80.jpg 71w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Alex Maness<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<strong><em>by Kirk Ross<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nThe blackberries have not yet blossomed, so that little freak bit of weather we just had can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t rightly be called a blackberry winter. More of a dogwood winter, as one friend put it. Definitely, a redbud winter.<!--more--><br \/>\nWe always have a last gasp spell of winter after spring seems to be settled in. More times than not, it includes showy flakes.<br \/>\nYou may recall that last year we had an abbreviated spring. After a rather harsh extended winter, we were dealing with temperatures close to the century mark in the first week of June.<br \/>\nSo here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hoping we have a nice, long Carolina spring \u00e2\u20ac\u201c warm days, cool nights, a little shower here and there \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the kind of weather that gets you outside and keeps you there. April is a favorite month for getting outside because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not too overbooked. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s face it, May and June are just impossible, crammed full of holidays, festivals and ceremonies. But April is the opportunity for larkish behavior. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the month where there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still time to run with an impulse to check out what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s blooming, the top of some mountain, that place with a patio, near-forgotten pioneers of rock, ice cream made with flowers or the new cushions on the glider.<br \/>\nWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve included more than a few suggestions in this month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s MILL, including a number of enjoyable ways to appreciate the natural wonders of this area. Before you get caught up in all there is to do in the warmer-weathered months, take a little time to enjoy the spring. The larks are calling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kirk Ross The blackberries have not yet blossomed, so that little freak bit of weather we just had can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t rightly be called a blackberry winter. More of a dogwood winter, as one friend put it. Definitely, a redbud winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4247"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4285,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions\/4285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}