{"id":1722,"date":"2009-04-01T09:47:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T17:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2010-03-25T11:44:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T19:44:18","slug":"april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/01\/april\/","title":{"rendered":"April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everywhere I look I see signs of spring! The earth is awakening and everything is so vibrant and alive and full of energy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1723\" title=\"Tree#3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/treeleafspring.jpg\" alt=\"Tree#3\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/treeleafspring.jpg 384w, https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/treeleafspring-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is hard to believe April is here. The flowers are blooming and the trees are unfurling their leaves. When I took my walk today, I came across a novel way to inject some vibrant color into your garden. I noticed our neighbor had hung three large Christmas\u00a0 balls from her tree. They appear to be made of crackled glass. My photo doesn&#8217;t do them justice . . . so beautiful &amp; surprising.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1724\" title=\"Tree Decorations\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/treedecorations.jpg\" alt=\"Tree Decorations\" width=\"339\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/treedecorations.jpg 339w, https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/treedecorations-300x276.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8220;The first of April, some do say,<br \/>\nIs set apart for All Fools&#8217; Day.<br \/>\nBut why the people call it so,<br \/>\nNor I, nor they themselves do know.<br \/>\nBut on this day are people sent<br \/>\nOn purpose for pure merriment.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0 Poor Robin&#8217;s Almanac, 1790<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everywhere I look I see signs of spring! The earth is awakening and everything is so vibrant and alive and full of energy. It is hard to believe April is here. The flowers are blooming and the trees are unfurling their leaves. When I took my walk today, I came across a novel way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[542,544,49,543,497],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions\/2326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}