{"id":4716,"date":"2013-04-02T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=4716"},"modified":"2016-09-26T21:28:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T02:28:48","slug":"enjoying-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=4716","title":{"rendered":"Enjoying Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0142\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8248\/8607237071_d8550a1be0.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8248\/8607237071_d8550a1be0_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0142\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0143\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8102\/8608341030_cb8036ee60.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8102\/8608341030_cb8036ee60_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0146\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8242\/8608341222_e2c5dff9d8.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8242\/8608341222_e2c5dff9d8_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0146\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These past few days I have felt myself turning a corner. It was getting to be a rough winter, to tell the truth. As the light changes and occasional warm days break the cycle of cold and rain and snow, our family is noticeably happier. It&#8217;s truly amazing what a few days in a row of fresh air does to my entire being.<\/p>\n<p>And with garden preparations under way (we are expanding and adding a real fence), there is a lot of work to be done. The inside work of keeping this big old place clean is just going to be on the back burner for a while so I can just feel like myself again. And that means more days outside in the sunshine, tilling soil and pulling up clump after clump of grass by hand. Our spring compost pile is already hard at work, and the wheelbarrow full of yard debris. I couldn&#8217;t be happier&#8230;<a title=\"DSC_0150\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8257\/8608341484_5c6746beb0.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8257\/8608341484_5c6746beb0_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These past few days I have felt myself turning a corner. It was getting to be a rough winter, to tell the truth. As the light changes and occasional warm days break the cycle of cold and rain and snow, our family is noticeably happier. It&#8217;s truly amazing what a few days in a row &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=4716\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Enjoying Spring&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,187],"tags":[115,173,92,93],"class_list":["post-4716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-green-living","category-motherhood","tag-garden","tag-green-living","tag-milo","tag-oliver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4716"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12217,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716\/revisions\/12217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}