{"id":199,"date":"2010-05-09T13:33:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T17:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2010\/05\/09\/celebrating-mother-nature-day\/"},"modified":"2010-05-09T13:33:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T17:33:02","slug":"celebrating-mother-nature-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2010\/05\/09\/celebrating-mother-nature-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Mother Nature Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was outside this morning in my rainy day boots, pajamas, and winter jacket picking rhubarb in the SNOW.  &#8220;This is just wrong!&#8221; ripped from my lips.  &#8220;It&#8217;s May 9th for crying out loud!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As I dusted the snow from the rhubarb leaves, I noticed my 11 year old Golden Retriever Herman running through the yard and jumping like a puppy.  Then it occurred to met that I wasn&#8217;t being attacked by skeeters or black flies and I had yet to step on a snake.  Maybe this isn&#8217;t so bad after all.<\/p>\n<p>After cutting off the leaves and throwing them in the field beside my house, I gathered up my harvest and ran through the falling snow, with Herman, heading to the house.  In wet pajama bottoms I cut the crop into pieces and lingered in the kitchen for a while to enjoy the aroma of baking pies.  What a smell!!  <\/p>\n<p>They will taste especially sweet this year &#8212; perhaps it wasn&#8217;t snow, just falling sugar.<\/p>\n<p>This is fun.  Back to the patch&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Mother&#8217;s Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was outside this morning in my rainy day boots, pajamas, and winter jacket picking [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}