{"id":154,"date":"2008-02-13T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T03:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2008\/02\/how-i-will-know-spring-is-coming.html"},"modified":"2008-02-13T22:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T03:38:00","slug":"how-i-will-know-spring-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2008\/02\/how-i-will-know-spring-is-coming.html","title":{"rendered":"How I Will Know Spring Is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll know spring is actually coming when&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My car windows thaw enough to be rolled up and down, relieving me of the need to open the entire door when mailing letters.<\/li>\n<li>My apartment windows thaw enough to let me see out of them.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m able to stop shielding myself from the draft that lands right on the couch. (A sane person would sit in the loveseat on the other side of the room. But that&#8217;s not where I sit, and what would P think?)<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m able to grasp door handles without worrying about freezing to them.<\/li>\n<li>I get the urge to go for walks in the evening again, no longer fearing the Wind that really doesn&#8217;t care about hats and scarves and coats and layers (including silk long underwear and wool socks on top of regular socks). These are not actually obstacles for the Wind. They are simply a call to arms. A challenge.<\/li>\n<li>The sun stays out for longer than my work day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Things I will miss when this happens, despite the fact that I&#8217;m completely tired of being cold:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cuddles from chilly kitties. I choose to see them as cuddles and not as a clever scheme to utilize the most accommodating heat-generator in the room. Don&#8217;t disabuse me.<\/li>\n<li>Snow. I like snow.<\/li>\n<li>My favorite combination of two lap blankets that are permanently waiting for me on the couch. I love sitting under blankets, and these two are so soft and warm when they&#8217;re layered on each other.<\/li>\n<li>Sleeping under heavy blankets. This is my all-time favorite thing about winter. Beds are wonderful places, but they&#8217;re doubly wonderful if they&#8217;ve been made all nest-ish and warm with layers and layers of blankets.<\/li>\n<li>Soup. I never seem to make or eat soup as much in the Spring and Summer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll know spring is actually coming when&#8230; My car windows thaw enough to be rolled up and down, relieving me of the need to open the entire door when mailing letters. My apartment windows thaw enough to let me see out of them. I&#8217;m able to stop shielding myself from the draft that lands right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2008\/02\/how-i-will-know-spring-is-coming.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How I Will Know Spring Is Coming<\/span> <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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}