{"id":1290,"date":"2015-03-12T17:39:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T21:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2015-03-14T18:14:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T22:14:22","slug":"the-last-week-of-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=1290","title":{"rendered":"The Last Week of Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last week of winter is finally upon us.\u00a0 Winter still has us in its icy grip,\u00a0but the calendar says it has to let go sometime.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0With each moment, the\u00a0earth moves inexorably in its orbit around the sun toward the vernal\u00a0equinox. \u00a0Temperatures have to rise sooner or later. The snow is still piled high, the sidewalks treacherous with ice\u00a0melt that has frozen overnight.\u00a0 The days\u00a0are lighter and the snow piles a bit smaller.\u00a0 It’s still cold, but the arctic chill is only\u00a0at night.<\/p>\n

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When fall comes, I reminisce about the summer. But when spring comes, I can’t remember the winter. Like someone waking from fever, I’ll\u00a0wake up\u00a0and it will be spring, I’ll banish the aggravations of dealing with snow, snow, and more snow from my mind. I\u00a0do this\u00a0once a year.\u00a0 Every year.\u00a0 I put winter behind me and forget. Like a bad dream. I’ll forget my rituals for dealing with snowstorms, my hats and gloves and boots.\u00a0 I’ll put all of that away and out of my mind.<\/p>\n

Until we go round in orbit, and winter gets us in its icy grip again!<\/p>\n

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The last week of winter is finally upon us.\u00a0 Winter still has us in its icy grip,\u00a0but the calendar says it has to let go sometime.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0With each moment, the\u00a0earth moves inexorably in its orbit around the sun toward the vernal\u00a0equinox. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}