{"id":191,"date":"2023-01-08T13:43:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T18:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2023-01-08T13:43:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T18:43:05","slug":"a-sign-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/2023\/01\/08\/a-sign-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"A sign of spring?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Where I grew up &#8211; in New York State &#8211; robins (that is, the American robin, which is a thrush) were considered to be the first sign of spring. In central Pennsylvania, &#8220;spring&#8221; alerts are somewhat different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that the first flocks of robins arrive in January, which is hardly spring (and this, despite climate change, goes back some 15 years when I first arrived in State College). No matter. Whenever robins do appear, I enjoy seeing them again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/b7353-robin-7jan2023.jpg?resize=640%2C580&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/b7353-robin-7jan2023.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/b7353-robin-7jan2023.jpg?resize=300%2C272&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/b7353-robin-7jan2023.jpg?resize=768%2C696&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>An American robin.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The robin above was one of about a dozen that were working the bramble edge and turning over leaves about sixty feet from my door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where I grew up &#8211; in New York State &#8211; robins (that is, the American robin, which is a thrush) were considered to be the first sign of spring. In central Pennsylvania, &#8220;spring&#8221; alerts are somewhat different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,15],"tags":[49,50],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-wildlife","tag-robin","tag-spring"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}