{"id":4439,"date":"2014-02-12T09:13:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T14:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/?p=4439"},"modified":"2014-02-12T09:13:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T14:13:53","slug":"winter-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/winter-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who are sick of winter, I offer the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We have gained 1 hour and 32 minutes of daylight since the shortest day of the season<\/li>\n<li>Sunny mornings are dawning with the accompaniment of songs by cardinals, nuthatches, chickadees, and sparrows<\/li>\n<li>The average daily temperature (historically speaking) has begun to rise<\/li>\n<li>Black bear cubs are being born all around western Massachusetts<\/li>\n<li>The NCAA basketball tournament starts in slightly over a month<\/li>\n<li>Red-winged blackbirds will be showing up any week now<\/li>\n<li>Spring Break starts in less than a month and will last a good three weeks this year!<\/li>\n<li>The Red Sox equipment truck and pitchers and catchers have arrived in Florida for spring training.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ll be tapping my maple trees within the next week<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hang in there!<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin F. Thompson, LICSW, BCD<br \/>\nDirector of Psychological Counseling Services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who are sick of winter, I offer the following: We have gained 1 hour and 32 minutes of daylight since the shortest day of the season Sunny mornings are dawning with the accompaniment of songs by cardinals, nuthatches, chickadees, and sparrows The average daily temperature (historically speaking) has begun to rise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/winter-perspective\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Winter Perspective<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-events"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4440,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions\/4440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}