{"id":962,"date":"2010-05-10T15:46:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T22:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenhopeessences.com\/wordpress\/?p=962"},"modified":"2010-05-10T15:50:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T22:50:49","slug":"the-business-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/?p=962","title":{"rendered":"The Business of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenhopeessences.com\/wordpress\/wp-contents\/upload\/2010\/05\/img-1722.jpg\" height=\"311\" width=\"414\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"IMG_1722.JPG\" title=\"IMG_1722.JPG\" \/><br \/>\nIn between snow flurries, the gardens go about their business.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenhopeessences.com\/wordpress\/wp-contents\/upload\/2010\/05\/img-1738.jpg\" height=\"362\" width=\"483\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"IMG_1738.JPG\" title=\"IMG_1738.JPG\" \/><span style=\"font-size:0pt;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span>As do the bumblebees.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenhopeessences.com\/wordpress\/wp-contents\/upload\/2010\/05\/img-1743.jpg\" height=\"285\" width=\"380\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"IMG_1743.JPG\" title=\"IMG_1743.JPG\" \/><span style=\"font-size:0pt;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span>I wish I could convey here in this blog the haunting clove fragrance of the Black Currant blossoms.  They make every trip past the berry patch a pleasure.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenhopeessences.com\/wordpress\/wp-contents\/upload\/2010\/05\/img-1752.jpg\" height=\"336\" width=\"449\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"IMG_1752.JPG\" title=\"IMG_1752.JPG\" \/><span style=\"font-size:0pt;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span>I am only glad that so many of you can catch the perfume of Lilac on the wind right now.  Dear Lilac, such a generous easy friend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In between snow flurries, the gardens go about their business. As do the bumblebees. I wish I could convey here in this blog the haunting clove fragrance of the Black Currant blossoms. They make every trip past the berry patch a pleasure. I am only glad that so many of you can catch the perfume &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/?p=962\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Business of Spring<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}