{"id":268,"date":"2007-04-09T16:46:15","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T20:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2007\/04\/09\/spring-has-sprung\/"},"modified":"2007-04-09T16:46:15","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T20:46:15","slug":"spring-has-sprung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2007\/04\/09\/spring-has-sprung\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring has sprung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And as the sap riseth in the humble vegetables, so riseth it in Desultor.  Mutatis mutandis.<\/p>\n<p>Crocuses have been around for a couple of weeks.  Towards the beginning of last week I saw my first daffodils.  Towards the end, those damned blue flowers which I still can&#8217;t identify.  I speak in this post of flowers, not merely foliage.  <\/p>\n<p>And now this week, the Kendall railroad weedpatch has blooms: woodsorrel (surprisingly early to me), some sort of chickweed (probably &#8220;common&#8221; but I was rushed and didn&#8217;t look closely), some crazy whiteflowered mustard with purpley foliage (flowers are about the size of shepherd&#8217;s purse; I think the foliage is pretty much entire), and storksbill!<\/p>\n<p>HOORAY!  For Desultor, it&#8217;s out of the gardens and into the sidewalk cracks!  The weedpatches!  The railroad tracks!  The tickpatch (mater memoriae)!  The swamps!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And as the sap riseth in the humble vegetables, so riseth it in Desultor. Mutatis mutandis. Crocuses have been around for a couple of weeks. Towards the beginning of last week I saw my first daffodils. Towards the end, those damned blue flowers which I still can&#8217;t identify. I speak in this post of flowers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[407],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}