{"id":3,"date":"2005-03-08T18:27:04","date_gmt":"2005-03-08T22:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2005\/03\/08\/lousy-smarch-weather\/"},"modified":"2005-03-08T18:27:04","modified_gmt":"2005-03-08T22:27:04","slug":"lousy-smarch-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2005\/03\/08\/lousy-smarch-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Lousy Smarch Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a617'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wonder what today&#8217;s heavy rain turning into sleet did to the forsythia I saw in full bloom on Oxford Street yesterday?  Or at least, I <i>think<\/i> it was a forsythia.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/desultor\/60373177733330.jpg\" height=\"254\" width=\"336\" border=\"0\" alt=\"forsythia march 8th\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty cool and audacious to have your flowers this early.  They&#8217;re especially striking, too: they must be some fancy garden variety.  The four petals are long and curled &mdash; almost confetti-like &mdash; and the sepals are a very bright red.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder why they like to flower so early?  I certainly haven&#8217;t seen any flying bugs yet this year, and wouldn&#8217;t expect such a fancy-looking flower to be wind-pollinated.  Most forsythia species are originally Asian, so my best guess is there must be some Asian bug who does the job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder what today&#8217;s heavy rain turning into sleet did to the forsythia I saw in full bloom on Oxford Street yesterday? Or at least, I think it was a forsythia. It&#8217;s pretty cool and audacious to have your flowers this early. They&#8217;re especially striking, too: they must be some fancy garden variety. The four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}