{"id":177772,"date":"2024-02-20T16:20:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T22:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=177772"},"modified":"2024-02-25T17:42:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T23:42:55","slug":"first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/first\/","title":{"rendered":"First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Daffodil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Daffodil-588x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"588\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-177769\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Daffodil-588x640.jpg 588w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Daffodil-941x1024.jpg 941w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Daffodil-768x836.jpg 768w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Daffodil-1412x1536.jpg 1412w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Daffodil-1882x2048.jpg 1882w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Daffodil-1200x1306.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 85vw, 588px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a brutal January, it looks like we&#8217;re heading for an early spring. The daffodil above opened yesterday, unscathed by the 13\u2109 freeze Saturday morning. This is the second-earliest daffodil I&#8217;ve seen in Kansas. (The earliest bloomed February 17 fifteen years ago.) The forecast for the rest of the month looks like late March or early April. The weather may well double-cross me in March (it occasionally happens that the heaviest snow of a winter falls on March 20), but it&#8217;s probably time to clean up the garden and get it ready for this year&#8217;s experiments.<\/p>\n<p>Update: The first Iris.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Iris-reticulata.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Iris-reticulata-491x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-177844\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Iris-reticulata-491x640.jpg 491w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Iris-reticulata-786x1024.jpg 786w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Iris-reticulata-768x1001.jpg 768w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Iris-reticulata-1179x1536.jpg 1179w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Iris-reticulata-1572x2048.jpg 1572w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Iris-reticulata-1200x1563.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Iris-reticulata.jpg 1965w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 85vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a brutal January, it looks like we&#8217;re heading for an early spring. The daffodil above opened yesterday, unscathed by the 13\u2109 freeze Saturday morning. This is the second-earliest daffodil I&#8217;ve seen in Kansas. (The earliest bloomed February 17 fifteen years ago.) The forecast for the rest of the month looks like late March or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/first\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[692,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany","category-photo-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4xam3-first","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177772"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177854,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177772\/revisions\/177854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}