{"id":1318,"date":"2009-04-27T21:41:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T21:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/27\/i-owe-a-real-post-but-i-saw-these-violets-and-dandilions\/"},"modified":"2009-04-27T21:41:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T21:41:55","slug":"i-owe-a-real-post-but-i-saw-these-violets-and-dandilions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/27\/i-owe-a-real-post-but-i-saw-these-violets-and-dandilions\/","title":{"rendered":"I Owe a Real Post But I Saw These Violets and Dandilions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/.a\/6a00d8341f053253ef01157058370d970b-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Violets and Dandilions Cropped\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341f053253ef01157058370d970b \" src=\"http:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/.a\/6a00d8341f053253ef01157058370d970b-500wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" \/><\/a><\/span>I went for a walk this morning &#8211; three miles in Rock Creek Park.&#0160; It was lovely &#8212; the creek still and reflecting the sun, shadows and wildflowers.&#0160; But these, they weren&#39;t even in the park.&#0160; They were along the side of the road as I walked up the street, back to my house.&#0160; That&#39;s what spring does &#8211; leaves us treasures when we&#39;re not even looking, adding beauty to the plainest of journeys. Aren&#39;t we lucky?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/.a\/6a00d8341f053253ef01156f633914970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GreeblepixEntryBadge-783548\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341f053253ef01156f633914970c \" src=\"http:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/.a\/6a00d8341f053253ef01156f633914970c-120wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" \/><\/a> OH &#8211; and I just entered this photo contest.&#0160; Just because I love violets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went for a walk this morning &#8211; three miles in Rock Creek Park.&#0160; It was lovely &#8212; the creek still and reflecting the sun, shadows and wildflowers.&#0160; But these, they weren&#39;t even in the park.&#0160; They were along the side of the road as I walked up the street, back to my house.&#0160; That&#39;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/27\/i-owe-a-real-post-but-i-saw-these-violets-and-dandilions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Owe a Real Post But I Saw These Violets and Dandilions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[690,691,688,689],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-dandilions","tag-greeblepix","tag-spring","tag-violets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-lg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}