{"id":2774,"date":"2017-03-08T12:27:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T16:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2017-03-20T11:28:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T15:28:22","slug":"something-about-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=2774","title":{"rendered":"Something About March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: medium;\">March has arrived.\u00a0A mild winter will soon draw to it&#8217;s astronomical close. How many winters have I seen come to an end? I&#8217;d rather not reflect on those specifics. Indeed,\u00a0I don&#8217;t\u00a0want to be reminded of that\u00a0exact number at all.\u00a0Some winters passed with a feeling of relief\u00a0along with the\u00a0anticipation of spring.\u00a0Some winters passed with\u00a0melancholy \u00a0because that particular winter was gone and\u00a0would never return.\u00a0In\u00a0those instances, winter was a reminder of <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: medium;\">the loss of another year\u00a0and that\u00a0time keeps moving and moving. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/cropped-20170304_141657-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2788\" src=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/cropped-20170304_141657-3-300x88.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"88\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/cropped-20170304_141657-3-300x88.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/cropped-20170304_141657-3-768x226.jpg 768w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/cropped-20170304_141657-3.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: medium;\">Winter came before me. Winter will come after me. The end of winter reminds me everything will one day pass and be lost. Returning to the\u00a0 cold, icy oblivion\u00a0it came from.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something about March that doesn&#8217;t lend itself to upbeat thoughts!<\/p>\n<p><em>copyright 2017 Christopher Donahue<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March has arrived.\u00a0A mild winter will soon draw to it&#8217;s astronomical close. How many winters have I seen come to an end? I&#8217;d rather not reflect on those specifics. Indeed,\u00a0I don&#8217;t\u00a0want to be reminded of that\u00a0exact number at all.\u00a0Some winters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=2774\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774","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=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2818,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions\/2818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}