{"id":7428,"date":"2016-03-22T21:52:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T04:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7428"},"modified":"2016-03-22T21:54:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T04:54:45","slug":"its-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/03\/its-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The temperature doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel like spring, but tell that to the backyard apricot tree. See what it did overnight.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Apricot-Blooms-2.jpg\" alt=\"Apricot Blooms 2\" width=\"1778\" height=\"1766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Apricot-Blooms-2.jpg 1778w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Apricot-Blooms-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Apricot-Blooms-2-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Apricot-Blooms-2-768x763.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Apricot-Blooms-2-1024x1017.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Apricot-Blooms-2-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Apricot-Blooms-2-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1778px) 100vw, 1778px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Soon, the orchards around here will all be in full bloom. I hate to leave them behind, but the family is going to take a few days\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 vacation and so is <em>Rifftides<\/em>. In the meantime, if you go to the right-hand column and scroll down to <strong>Archives<\/strong>, you can browse through years of posts. You can also enter a name or a subject in the <strong>Search The Site<\/strong> box at the very top of the right column and see what pops up.<\/p>\n<p>The calendar says it has been spring for a couple of days, so we leave you with a spring song.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HXoh7LzUpCM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kristin Korb, voice and double bass; Mike Wofford, piano; Jeff Hamilton, drums\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfrom the 2001 album <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Where-Youll-Find-Kristin-Korb\/dp\/B00005U57Z\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;tag=rifftidougram-20\" target=\"_blank\">Where You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll Find Me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The temperature doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel like spring, but tell that to the backyard apricot tree. See what it did overnight. Soon, the orchards around here will all be in full bloom. I hate to leave them behind, but the family is going to take a few days\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 vacation and so is Rifftides. In the meantime, if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}