{"id":2858,"date":"2013-03-21T05:30:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T12:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=2858"},"modified":"2013-03-21T00:46:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T07:46:16","slug":"have-you-heard-its-officially-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=2858","title":{"rendered":"Have you heard? It&#8217;s officially spring&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/girl-in-green-dress.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2859\" title=\"girl-in-green-dress\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/girl-in-green-dress.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/girl-in-green-dress.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/girl-in-green-dress-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/girl-in-green-dress-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but I&#8217;m not sure if Seattle got the memo. Maybe it&#8217;s been blown away by the gales of 40mph winds? I would like to wear a kelly green dress and carry a gigantic bouquet of flowers like my watercolor illustration, if weather will permit some day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/spring-flowers1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2860\" title=\"spring-flowers1\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/spring-flowers1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/spring-flowers1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/spring-flowers1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I had to run some errands in downtown and a little boy about the age of three or four came up to me and handed me a daffodil. A creamy white one with a lemon yellow center. A celebration of the first day of spring. I&#8217;d forgotten about this annual <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/photogalleries\/localnews2020605271\/\" target=\"_blank\">tradition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/spring-flowers2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2861\" title=\"spring-flowers2\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/spring-flowers2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/spring-flowers2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/spring-flowers2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I got back home, I snipped some flowers from our yard and added them to the white daffodil.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/spring-flowers3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2862\" title=\"spring-flowers3\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/spring-flowers3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/spring-flowers3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/spring-flowers3-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It may not <em>feel<\/em> like spring, but at least it looks like it. And that, I admit, is not so bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but I&#8217;m not sure if Seattle got the memo. Maybe it&#8217;s been blown away by the gales of 40mph winds? I would like to wear a kelly green dress and carry a gigantic bouquet of flowers like my watercolor illustration, if weather will permit some day. Yesterday, I had to run some errands in downtown and a little boy about the age of three or four came up to me and handed me a daffodil. A creamy white one with a lemon yellow center. A celebration of the first day of spring. I&#8217;d forgotten about this annual tradition. When I got back home, I snipped some flowers from our yard and added them to the white daffodil. It may not feel like spring, but at least it looks like it. And that, I admit, is not so bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-illustration","7":"category-life","8":"category-watercolor","9":"entry","10":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2865,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions\/2865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}