{"id":5484,"date":"2012-03-01T11:57:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T16:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=5484"},"modified":"2012-03-02T12:03:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T17:03:24","slug":"rosss-almanac-for-march-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2012\/03\/rosss-almanac-for-march-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"ROSS\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S ALMANAC For March 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Compiled by Kirk Ross<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m as restless as a willow in a windstorm<br \/>\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m as jumpy as a puppet on a spring<\/em><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201c Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II<\/p>\n<p>Here in the Piedmont, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve spent a good part of this winter with the title to the song featuring the above lyrics in mind: <em>It Might As Well Be Spring<\/em>. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen a handful of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153springs\u00e2\u20ac\u009d this winter, but the season doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t officially arrive until 1:14 a.m. on March 20. <\/p>\n<p>A little winter weather may still be lurking in the weeks ahead, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been one of the mildest years since, well, two years ago. The lack of severe weather has led to some odd displays of longing from people who ordinarily would be the first to panic at the sight of a flake or two. The desire for a snow day has been so strong that the small blast of winter weather we had late last month was greeted with the same kind of wonder and awe usually found among Floridians. And the dusting we got \u00e2\u20ac\u201c up to a full half-inch in places \u00e2\u20ac\u201c yielded several variations, dutifully posted on Twitter and Facebook, of miniature snowpeople. Maybe in March we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see enough of a winter surprise to allow for the construction of the full-sized variety, but don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bet the ranch on it.<\/p>\n<p>March 1 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Sunrise: 6:45 a.m.; Sunset: 6:11 p.m.<br \/>\nMarch 31 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Sunrise: 7:03 a.m.; Sunset: 7:37 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>First Quarter \u00e2\u20ac\u201c March 1  Full Moon \u00e2\u20ac\u201c March 8<br \/>\nLast Quarter \u00e2\u20ac\u201c March 14 New Moon \u00e2\u20ac\u201d March 22 <\/p>\n<p>The Full Moon in <strong>March<\/strong> is known as the Lenten Moon, Worm Moon, Death Moon, Sugar Moon, Crust Moon, Sap Moon and Chaste Moon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Planets &#038; Stars:<\/strong> Jupiter makes its descent from the evening sky this month while Mercury rises to join Saturn and Mars. Venus continues to rule the mornings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>March<\/strong> is Poetry Month, National Craft Month, Irish American Heritage Month, Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s History Month, Music in Schools Month and National Frozen Food Month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Significant Dates<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 March 1 is National Pig Day<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 National Anthem Day and If Pets Had Thumbs Day is March 3<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 March 6 is Dentists Day<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 March 11 is Johnny Appleseed Day<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 3.14 is National Pi Day<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 The Ides of March is March 15<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Freedom of Information Day is March 16<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 St. Patrick\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day is March 17<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 International Earth Day and the Vernal Equinox are on March 20<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 National Goof Off Day is March 22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compiled by Kirk Ross I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m as restless as a willow in a windstorm I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m as jumpy as a puppet on a spring \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II Here in the Piedmont, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve spent a good part of this winter with the title to the song featuring the above lyrics in mind: It Might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-almanac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5486,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions\/5486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}