{"id":338,"date":"2010-03-15T14:59:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T21:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=338"},"modified":"2010-03-15T14:59:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T21:59:08","slug":"harbingers-of-spring-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Harbingers of Spring, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4432662369\/\" title=\"IMG_2890 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4041\/4432662369_f14c82a214.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_2890\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bradford Pears are in full bloom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4433422390\/\" title=\"IMG_2884 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4008\/4433422390_a1700c3850.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_2884\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a hybrid variety produced specifically for the purpose of not bearing fruit.  I never particularly understood why someone set out to create a pear tree that didn&#8217;t make pears.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4433389286\/\" title=\"IMG_2867 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4002\/4433389286_a42aff4bf8.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_2867\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But they certainly are beautiful this time of year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4433396410\/\" title=\"IMG_2872 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4001\/4433396410_0e07c183c4.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_2872\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can the dogwoods be far behind?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bradford Pears are in full bloom. This is a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}