{"id":2105,"date":"2012-04-19T13:18:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T17:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=2105"},"modified":"2012-04-19T13:18:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T17:18:42","slug":"listening-post-spring-minu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/04\/19\/listening-post-spring-minu\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening Post: Spring minus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The butterflies and dandelions, rhododendron and apple blossoms, etc., convince me that spring is really here. Usually I greet this realization with a burst of optimistic enthusiasm. But this year&#8211;<em>meh<\/em>&#8211;it&#8217;s OK, I guess. It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m depressed (or no more than usual)&#8211;it&#8217;s just that something is not quite right. I believe we left out an essential ingredient of spring&#8211;<em>winter<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2106\" title=\"winterspring\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/04\/winterspring.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/04\/winterspring.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/04\/winterspring-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>It pains me to admit to such a Puritan outlook, but my enjoyment of the season is plagued by the notion that a great spring can only be deserved by undergoing the purifying suffering of a North Country winter&#8211;endless, brutal, mind-numbing winter. Without this evidence of stoic virtue, the blessings of warmth and light don&#8217;t feel quite right, like getting credit for something your brother did.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I&#8217;ll get over it, and get with the program after a while. As it says in the Book of Matthew, &#8220;He makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.&#8221; Who am I to argue with good fortune, or good weather? But I can&#8217;t help thinking we&#8217;ll probably all pay for it <em>next<\/em> winter. What a sweet spring that one will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The butterflies and dandelions, rhododendron and apple blossoms, etc., convince me that spring is really [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}