{"id":7199,"date":"2012-03-29T04:47:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T03:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=7199"},"modified":"2012-03-29T05:16:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T04:16:57","slug":"spring-is-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=7199","title":{"rendered":"Spring is in the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK is currently going through what some people say is an uncharacteristic bout of weather.<\/p>\n<p>But is it?<\/p>\n<p>I can remember Easters where we have had snow and day-time temperatures of 0c.<\/p>\n<p>I can remember Easters where we have had tropical weather and temperatures of +20c.<\/p>\n<p>These facts put the daytime average temperature somewhere in the 10c zone.<\/p>\n<p>Just saying.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still feeling toey.<\/p>\n<p>I have been wondering if it is the weather, the hotter-than-usual, summer-like conditions that have been making me feel like this.<\/p>\n<p>Or is it something else?<\/p>\n<p>Love?<\/p>\n<p>Lust?<\/p>\n<p>Infatuation?<\/p>\n<p>Do we believe in love at first sight?<\/p>\n<p>Or lust at first sight?<\/p>\n<p>Or even infatuation at first sight?<\/p>\n<p>Do we even believe in sight?<\/p>\n<p>Answers please, on a skimpy pair of knickers, to me.<\/p>\n<p>Or is it something more routine?<\/p>\n<p>Is it because of the changing seasons &#8211; the cycle of renewal &#8211; that I am so&#8230; &#8216;possessed by a foolish and extravagant passion&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>Or am I in love?<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I think I&#8217;m in love.<\/p>\n<p>And who can blame me.<\/p>\n<p>Such form, such exquisite beauty, such grace, such wit, charm, humour and intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Falling in love with these qualities is easy.<\/p>\n<p>Judge for yourself. The qualities are hypnotic.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bt-zNr538_g?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"480\" height=\"315\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bt-zNr538_g?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK is currently going through what some people say is an uncharacteristic bout of weather. But is it? I can remember Easters where we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}