{"id":322,"date":"2010-03-07T12:11:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T17:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itfarmer.wordpress.com\/?p=322"},"modified":"2010-03-07T12:11:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T17:11:29","slug":"signs-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"Signs of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_323\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/spring1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-323\" class=\"size-full wp-image-323\" title=\"Grape Clones, Just Beginning to Sprout \" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/spring1.jpg\" alt=\"Grape Clones, Just Beginning to Sprout \" width=\"540\" height=\"347\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grape Clones, Just Beginning to Sprout <\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have been patiently waiting for my Grape Clones to begin growing, and I was just beginning to wonder if I missed a step in the process. It has been nearly a month since I clipped these vines from the arbor by the Ice House, and finally there is some growth. When I see my work just start to grow, it vindicates all of the effort I&#8217;ve put in. Everything\u00a0from purchasing the soil, to cutting the second cup to fit on top to freezing my tail off in the ultra-cold February wind to cut the canes; it all begins to pay off when the first little spec of new growth pushes it&#8217;s way out. I love the payoff I get from growing these plants.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_324\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/spring2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-324\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324\" title=\"Daffodils \" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/spring2.jpg\" alt=\"Daffodils \" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daffodils <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Punxs. Phil might have been right, but I like to base my predictions of springs arrival on Daffodils. Sure, there may be snow again, but to me, when I see them popping up through the soil, It tells me one thing &#8220;Spring will be here Soon&#8221;. There are usually a week or two ahead of the official &#8220;spring&#8221; start date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been patiently waiting for my Grape Clones to begin growing, and I was just beginning to wonder if I missed a step in the process. It has been nearly a month since I clipped these vines from the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=322\">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":[52,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}