{"id":55,"date":"2008-01-30T21:33:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T05:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/30\/ode-to-january\/"},"modified":"2008-01-30T21:38:53","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T05:38:53","slug":"ode-to-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/30\/ode-to-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode To January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the time of year, when I go through all of my supplies and get rid of stuff I no longer need or want. I found dried up tubes of acrylic paint, empty ink bottles, and a couple of very sad looking brushes. Afterwards, when I had finished,  I treated myself to a nice cup of hot tea.<\/p>\n<p>I find winter is a good time to contemplate, reflect and observe the busy world slow down a bit. It&#8217;s also a time when I  bring a little bit of nature into our home,  flowers, potted plants, and my favorite seed catalog, daydreaming of the first signs of spring. It won&#8217;t be too much longer now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Times New Roman\"><big><strong>&#8220;There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw.  The other is the seed catalogues.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/big><strong>&#8211;   Hal Borland<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>I took some photographs in the afternoon, and discovered this beautiful tree near our home. A perfect ode to January.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/treescape.jpg\" alt=\"Ode to January\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ode to January (C) 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the time of year, when I go through all of my supplies and get rid of stuff I no longer need or want. I found dried up tubes of acrylic paint, empty ink bottles, and a couple of very sad looking brushes. Afterwards, when I had finished, I treated myself to a nice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"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=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}