{"id":14513,"date":"2014-04-17T18:41:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T00:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=14513"},"modified":"2014-04-17T18:41:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T00:41:02","slug":"lilac-buds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2014\/04\/lilac-buds\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilac buds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr14\/LilacBuds6418.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr14\/LilacBuds6418.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every year at this time I take photos of the lilac buds.<\/p>\n<p>I think they are beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>And they are the first thing to bloom in my yard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr14\/LilacBuds6416.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr14\/LilacBuds6416.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The day lilies are 6 inches tall.<\/p>\n<p>The rhubarb is up.<\/p>\n<p>The lily of the valley shoots are about an inch out of the ground.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr14\/LilacBuds6424.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr14\/LilacBuds6424.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the lilacs will be the first things to bloom and the buds are so pretty as they grow and unfold.<\/p>\n<p>It is Passover and Holy Week&#8230;overlapping.  Both speak to new life, albeit in different ways.<\/p>\n<p>Chag Sameach or Happy Easter &#8211; whichever you celebrate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year at this time I take photos of the lilac buds. I think they are beautiful. And they are the first thing to bloom in my yard. The day lilies are 6 inches tall. The rhubarb is up. The lily of the valley shoots are about an inch out of the ground. But the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings","category-nature"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14515,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14513\/revisions\/14515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}