{"id":12644,"date":"2008-03-15T23:37:47","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T03:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12644"},"modified":"2014-01-13T20:09:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T01:09:57","slug":"the-first-daffodil-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/15\/the-first-daffodil-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"The first daffodil of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the midst of the deadline crunch on the next issue of <i>SCI FI<\/i> magazine at the moment, so I was only able to spare a few minutes outside wandering our property today. I&#8217;m lucky that I managed to get  out there, or else I would have missed one of my favorite moments of the year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/FirstDaffodil2008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/FirstDaffodil2008-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"FirstDaffodil2008\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/FirstDaffodil2008-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/FirstDaffodil2008.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the high temperatures, the first  daffodil of the season popped open this afternoon, a tiny Tete-a-Tete. I&#8217;ve always found something hopeful about daffodils, which is why I spend much of my October and November each year digging them in.  Looking forward to them always makes Winter zip by.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the month, we&#8217;ll have hundreds of daffodils in bloom, and by the middle of April, perhaps thousands.  But the first is always special.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the midst of the deadline crunch on the next issue of SCI FI magazine at the moment, so I was only able to spare a few minutes outside wandering our property today. I&#8217;m lucky that I managed to get out there, or else I would have missed one of my favorite moments of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[414],"class_list":["post-12644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12646,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644\/revisions\/12646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}