{"id":2449,"date":"2009-04-21T08:54:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T14:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2009-04-21T08:54:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T14:54:48","slug":"winds-and-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2449","title":{"rendered":"Winds and Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Seed Moon<\/p>\n<p>Sunny but cold, winds hit 10 mph and temperatures in the low 40&#8217;s.\u00a0 Quiet but steady rain over the last three days and the green-up in the perennial beds is well underway.\u00a0 I saw the first garlic shoot above the soil yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The predictions have higher temperatures:\u00a0 NOAA and the WCCO have 78 on Thursday while the Weatherunderground\u00a0 predicts 70.\u00a0 Heat will spur the process of plant growth.\u00a0 Tulips and daffodils by the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Drive into the cities at this time of year from the northern exurbs, the daffodils and some tulips have already begun to bloom.\u00a0 30 miles further north than Minneapolis and St. Paul, we lag the cities by almost a week in bloom time.<\/p>\n<p>Tour prep time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Seed Moon Sunny but cold, winds hit 10 mph and temperatures in the low 40&#8217;s.\u00a0 Quiet but steady rain over the last three days and the green-up in the perennial beds is well underway.\u00a0 I saw the first garlic shoot above the soil yesterday. The predictions have higher temperatures:\u00a0 NOAA and the WCCO &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2449\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Winds and Warming<\/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-2449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather-climate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}