{"id":13312,"date":"2012-03-29T00:05:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T07:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=13312"},"modified":"2012-03-29T00:05:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T07:05:58","slug":"vernal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/13312","title":{"rendered":"vernal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I can hardly believe my eyes, but as I shade them with my hand, there&#8217;s no denying the brilliant gleam of the wakening sun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image wp-image-13426\" title=\"gleaming_word-vernal-3803\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/gleaming_word-vernal-3803.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Time to unpack the wide-brimmed hats!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My nose detects \u2026 can it really be?<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"gleaming_word-vernal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/gleaming_word-vernal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"273\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of blackberry blossoms courtesy of Wikimedia.com, Ranveig<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Yes! The damp, delicious scent of thawing earth!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My fingers have found soft, swelling buds on the verge of unfurling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Morning birdsongs are ringing in my ears.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image wp-image-13423\" title=\"gleaming_word-vernal-3795\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/gleaming_word-vernal-3795.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"238\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And I can already taste the sweet, crisp succulence of the season\u2019s first greens.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"get_out-greenhouse-1916\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/get_out-greenhouse-1916.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The year has come around again, and life is positively \u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">VERNAL!<\/p>\n<p><strong>ver\u00b7nal [<\/strong><strong>vur-nl]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1<strong>:<\/strong> of, relating to, or occurring in the spring &lt;<em>vernal<\/em> equinox&gt;&lt;<em>vernal<\/em> sunshine&gt;<\/p>\n<p>2<strong>:<\/strong> fresh or new like the spring; also:<em> youthful<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>In the wise words of William Wordsworth \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cOne impulse from a vernal wood<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">May teach you more of man,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Of moral evil and of good,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Than all the sages can.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sweet is the lore which Nature brings \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vernal Veracity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ever heard the old myths of egg- or broom-balancing on the vernal equinox (which occurs on or around March 21 each year)? Get the straight story of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/science\/equinox.asp\">\u201cInfernal Egguinox\u201d<\/a> on Snopes.com.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can hardly believe my eyes, but as I shade them with my hand, there&#8217;s no denying the brilliant gleam of the wakening sun. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/13312\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[370,935],"class_list":["post-13312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gleaming_word","tag-gleaming-word-a-week","tag-vernal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}