{"id":236,"date":"2015-06-12T01:38:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T01:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gypsyjudge.com\/?p=236"},"modified":"2015-07-11T14:27:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T14:27:50","slug":"march-2015-is-it-spring-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gypsyjudge.com\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"March, 2015  Is it Spring yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 7, 2015 Is it Spring yet?<br \/>\nI\u2019m back in Northwest Florida where Spring is dancing with Winter. The red buds are beginning to bloom, and the azaleas are considering it. The lawn grass hasn\u2019t gotten into the green yet but will soon. Mother Nature hasn\u2019t made up her mind; it\u2019s warm then cold (temperatures changing from the 70\u2019s to the 40\u2019s and then back again); wet\/dry (relative terms but it knows how to rain here, unlike Arizona and New Mexico); days may be windy or calm (winds labeled here as \u201chigh\u201d are called \u201cbreezy\u201d in the desert.)<br \/>\nOn March 6, I was at the Author\u2019s Event at Page and Palette, an Independent Book Store in Fairhope, Alabama, in conjunction with Fairhope\u2019s 1st Friday Art Walk. I love independent book stores, and Page &amp; Palette is a reason why. It was a delight to talk with friends \u2013 old and new. Plus there was free wine \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nI speak at the Unitarian Church of Mobile on April 12 and am part of a three-person panel presenting a day and half class at the Advanced Judicial College in Orlando in June. Our class is Law &amp; Literature \u2013 law, justice, and morality; the class will be all judges, so there is great potential for divergent conversations there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 7, 2015 Is it Spring yet? I\u2019m back in Northwest Florida where Spring is dancing with Winter. The red buds are beginning to bloom, and the azaleas are considering it. The lawn grass hasn\u2019t gotten into the green yet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gypsyjudge.com\/?p=236\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gypsyjudge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gypsyjudge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gypsyjudge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gypsyjudge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gypsyjudge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gypsyjudge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gypsyjudge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gypsyjudge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gypsyjudge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}