{"id":1395,"date":"2008-04-15T20:01:24","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T03:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/more_firsts\/"},"modified":"2008-04-15T20:01:24","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T03:01:24","slug":"more_firsts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/more_firsts\/","title":{"rendered":"More Firsts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was in the upper sixties today.  It might have even hit 70.  As I went out to call in  Edward Scissorhands, I noticed that the daffodils along the east wall of the house have begun to bloom, and I can see the heads of the lily plants poking out of the earth.<br \/>\nSomewhere back in my archives there is an entry or twelve on Scilla, a tiny blue flowered bulb that blooms early in the season.  Last week I noticed a sea of thin green leaves around the base of one of the trees in the grove, and today the flowers had opened.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanext.uiuc.edu\/bulbs\/images\/pics-squill.jpg\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> a good picture of scilla thanks to the University of Illinois.<br \/>\nI went back through my archives, and was interested to see that the squill bloomed much earlier in some years than others.  This must have been a tough winter, with all the snow and cold.<br \/>\nAnd, we have at least one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhptv.org\/natureworks\/rufoustowhee.htm\">Rufous-Sided Towhee<\/a>!  Welcome back little bird!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was in the upper sixties today. It might have even hit 70. As I went out to call in Edward Scissorhands, I noticed that the daffodils along the east wall of the house have begun to bloom, and I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/more_firsts\/\">Continue reading <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":[13,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}