{"id":573890686,"date":"2018-03-21T21:29:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T02:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573890686"},"modified":"2018-04-12T16:13:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T21:13:37","slug":"its-still-winter-in-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2018\/03\/21\/its-still-winter-in-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Its still winter, in spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not accustomed to seeing cotton bolls in March. Then again, I&#8217;m not accustomed to seeing snow in March, either:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar18\/mar18.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still spring, by the way. And at lunch I saw this second, or third, sign of spring:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar18\/mar19.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to keep count, there have been daffodils and the eternal budding-but-not-opening of trees and my first robin of the year, and pointless, too. Winter isn&#8217;t hardly done with us yet. <\/p>\n<p>But, for this afternoon&#8217;s neighborhood 5K, when it had warmed up to an impossible 46\u00b0, I wore a sweatshirt. I did that for the first 1.8 or so, and then discarded it. I ditched it just before the shady and cold segment.<\/p>\n<p>Now, normally that would be one of those things you&#8217;d laugh and shiver about. Timing, am I right? But I did this in the neighborhood. I did this in the neighborhood, the place where, presumably, I know where the shady spots are. <\/p>\n<p>So this was a lovely experience. Ten years ago we were at Peju, got a few of these and held on to one. And held on to it and held on to it and held on to it. After a while it became a joke. <\/p>\n<p>Then, as I tend to do, I got sentimental about it. We got some more, so that solved the nostalgia problem. And by then we figured we should probably ought to wait until the 10th anniversary. <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tonight we opened a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PEJU_Winery?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PEJU_Winery<\/a> Provence we got 10 years ago today.<\/p>\n<p>Cork didn&#39;t make it, but it was worth the wait.<\/p>\n<p>(Please send more.) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6SU3F1m9qM\">pic.twitter.com\/6SU3F1m9qM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/976651602969886720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>And here we are. Tonight was the 10th anniversary. The cork didn&#8217;t cooperate, but we filtered out the debris.<\/p>\n<p>It was quite tasty after we let it breathe. I don&#8217;t know if it was worth hanging on to for all of that time, but it was worth getting sentimental about. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not accustomed to seeing cotton bolls in March. Then again, I&#8217;m not accustomed to seeing snow in March, either: It&#8217;s still spring, by the way. And at lunch I saw this second, or third, sign of spring: It&#8217;s hard to keep count, there have been daffodils and the eternal budding-but-not-opening of trees and my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,57,31,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573890686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memories","category-photo","category-running","category-twitter","category-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573890686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573890687,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890686\/revisions\/573890687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573890686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573890686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573890686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}