{"id":33681,"date":"2022-04-27T19:52:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T00:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=33681"},"modified":"2022-04-27T19:52:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T00:52:03","slug":"the-colors-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=33681","title":{"rendered":"The Colors of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s been a vibrant few weeks &#8212; incredibly beautiful and with deleterious nasal effects.  I&#8217;ve not been able to breathe through my nose in weeks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I went out to CVS this afternoon to pick up one of my prescriptions.  It was a quiet moment, I&#8217;d reached a good stopping point in the day&#8217;s major work projects, and when I returned forty minutes later the office had (metaphorically) burned down, and then I spent the next two and a half hours putting out fires that had sprung up in my absence that weren&#8217;t even mine to start with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But!  At least there was some beauty this afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-fullwidth\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220427_140753-1200x720.jpg\" alt=\"The tree outside my apartment is already shedding its petals\" class=\"wp-image-33677\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-fullwidth\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220427_140907-1200x720.jpg\" alt=\"The pink dogwood tree by the mailboxes looks so pretty\" class=\"wp-image-33679\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-fullwidth\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220427_140857-1200x720.jpg\" alt=\"So, I once lost control of my car and plunged over that embankment\" class=\"wp-image-33678\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-fullwidth\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220427_140935-1200x720.jpg\" alt=\"You can sort of see the cemetery in Yoe right near the center. It's easier to see in real life from my vantage point than it is in photos\" class=\"wp-image-33680\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a vibrant few weeks &#8212; incredibly beautiful and with deleterious nasal effects. I&#8217;ve not been able to breathe through my nose in weeks! I went out to CVS this afternoon to pick up one of my prescriptions. It was a quiet moment, I&#8217;d reached a good stopping point in the day&#8217;s major work<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=33681\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Colors of Spring&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}