{"id":720,"date":"2009-02-25T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=720"},"modified":"2009-10-31T17:00:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T17:00:57","slug":"hopes-for-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=720","title":{"rendered":"Hopes for Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/3306761566\/\" target=_blank title=\"\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3325\/3306761566_644d900241.jpg?v=0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=Indent>We&#8217;re well and truly buckled down to our studies, but do occasionally poke our heads up to realize that Spring is on its way!  There are clusters of bulbs poking their shoots up through the grass, everywhere it seems.  The crocuses are all up and in bloom, with the daffodils soon to follow.  The temperatures have been hovering about 8&deg;C \/ 47&deg;F for about a week, and the snow is long gone away.  We&#8217;ve not had much in the way of rain, either.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>The newscasters this morning told us that the nasty weather is coming back, in that uniquely UK way of referring to things: &#8220;we have lots of isobars coming in from the north.&#8221;  Yep, isobars coming in.  Do check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/isobar\" target=_blank>the definition<\/a> if you&#8217;re curious.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent><i>&#8211; D &#038; T<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/80x15.png\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>This work is licensed under a<br \/>\n<a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re well and truly buckled down to our studies, but do occasionally poke our heads up to realize that Spring is on its way! There are clusters of bulbs poking their shoots up through the grass, everywhere it seems. The crocuses are all up and in bloom, with the daffodils soon to follow. The temperatures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}