{"id":125443,"date":"2021-03-12T08:29:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T14:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=125443"},"modified":"2021-03-17T14:17:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T19:17:43","slug":"march-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/march-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"March blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I got out to the botanical garden yesterday for the first time since November. There wasn’t much in bloom \u2014 no surprise, considering that it was -16\u00b0F just over three weeks ago. Most of the plants there seemed to have weathered the freakish freeze okay, though the winter jasmine, which would ordinarily be a mass of yellow<\/a> at this time, was just a bunch of twigs. I was able to find a little bit of color here and there.<\/p>\n

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I was irritated to discover that the garden had installed numerous inspirational\/motivational signs throughout a couple of sections. They’re unattractive and distracting, and they will obstruct the view as the gardens return to life. I also intensely<\/strong><\/em> resent being preached at. They had better be gone next time I visit.<\/p>\n

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There are more pictures here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update: I made another trip out there, and this time I did find a bit of yellow jasmine.<\/p>\n

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But only a few blossoms, not the usual hundreds and hundreds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got out to the botanical garden yesterday for the first time since November. There wasn’t much in bloom \u2014 no surprise, considering that it was -16\u00b0F just over three weeks ago. Most of the plants there seemed to have weathered the freakish freeze okay, though the winter jasmine, which would ordinarily be a mass … Continue reading “March blues”<\/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":[695,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botanica","category-photo-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-wDh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125443"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126223,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125443\/revisions\/126223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}