{"id":81,"date":"2009-03-20T14:16:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T19:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2009-03-20T14:16:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T19:16:51","slug":"spring-has-sprung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/03\/20\/spring-has-sprung\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Has Sprung!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_82\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82\" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/spring_tealelog.jpg\" alt=\"March 20, 1960\" width=\"450\" height=\"555\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/03\/spring_tealelog.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/03\/spring_tealelog-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-82\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">March 20, 1960<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Even the most dedicated authors get a bit of &#8220;spring fever&#8221;.  Edwin Way Teale, who devoted his life to nature and the environment, shows signs in his diary that he is thankful for spring to arrive during his first spring at &#8220;Trial Wood&#8221;, the newly purchased seventy-nine acre property he and his wife Nellie purchased in Hampton, CT.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<strong>We drive to Willimantic for Sunday papers &#8211; walk in woods and down lane to see pussywillow tree in the afternoon.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He further states that he should be working on Chapter XXI (of &#8220;Journey Into Summer&#8221;) but &#8220;seem to have spring fever!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(in the interest of full disclosure, we should also let you know that 6 days later on March 26, it was 0 degrees at dawn)  <strong>Enjoy Spring!<\/strong><\/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>Even the most dedicated authors get a bit of &#8220;spring fever&#8221;. Edwin Way Teale, who devoted his life to nature and the environment, shows signs in his diary that he is thankful for spring to arrive during his first spring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/03\/20\/spring-has-sprung\/\">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":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}