{"id":13,"date":"2014-10-12T19:30:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T19:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.copperandcoal.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2014-12-15T04:54:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T04:54:41","slug":"thoughts-on-the-coming-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.copperandcoal.com\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"thoughts on the coming of spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.copperandcoal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_8762-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8762\" width=\"625\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.copperandcoal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_8762-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.copperandcoal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_8762-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.copperandcoal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_8762-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.copperandcoal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_8762.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">When the Eastern Sierra wakes from winter, it&#8217;s a collective breath being drawn. Oh how I wish I could watch you bloom, bitterbrush, but just all of a sudden there you are, blushing all yellow after months of looking at me with brittle dark green leaves. And when did you return, Mountain Chickadee, calling &#8220;cheeeese-burger&#8221; outside my window as though you&#8217;d been at it since time immemorial?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">You all forget how lonely I was without you. How I pleaded, &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry. Please come home to me&#8221; as the snow fell and the icicles encroached. For how strong the primordial longing for the green leaves to grow again on the trees, to squeak joyfully, I am alive! And this winter did not take me, oh no, I have cheated death&#8217;s grasp once more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Eastern Sierra wakes from winter, it&#8217;s a collective breath being drawn. Oh how I wish I could watch you bloom, bitterbrush, but just all of a sudden there you are, blushing all yellow after months of looking at me with brittle dark green leaves. And when did you return, Mountain Chickadee, calling &#8220;cheeeese-burger&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.copperandcoal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.copperandcoal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.copperandcoal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.copperandcoal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.copperandcoal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.copperandcoal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.copperandcoal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.copperandcoal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.copperandcoal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.copperandcoal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}