{"id":2460,"date":"2018-04-14T00:41:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T00:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2019-11-14T20:12:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T20:12:02","slug":"minnesota-in-the-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/minnesota-in-the-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota in the Springtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/webcam\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20180320ff\/201804131758-329.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>&#8220;&#8230;I love Paris in the springtime.<br \/>\nI love Paris in the fall&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been years since I heard &#8220;I Love Paris.&#8221; Nice song, but a bit schmaltzy for today&#8217;s tastes.<\/p>\n<p>And nobody&#8217;s written a follow-up, expressing affection for Minnesota in the springtime.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s our weather. There&#8217;s a winter storm in progress: rain and freezing rain a little earlier, then snow, with heavy snow and thunderstorms on the way.<\/p>\n<p>That picture is what the webcam saw around 7:00 this evening. I won&#8217;t mind staying inside tomorrow. Maybe I&#8217;ll get some writing done:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/webcam\/\">Webcam: Sauk Centre MN<\/a><br \/>\nLive, from my corner of small town America<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/writing-a-raven-and-pallas\/\">Writing, a Raven and Pallas<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(April 8, 2018)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/2411-2\/\">In Conference, Out to Lunch, Gone Fishing, Whatever: I&#8217;m Taking a &#8216;Break&#8217;<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(March 26, 2016)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;I love Paris in the springtime. I love Paris in the fall&#8230;.&#8221; It&#8217;s been years since I heard &#8220;I Love Paris.&#8221; Nice song, but a bit schmaltzy for today&#8217;s tastes. And nobody&#8217;s written a follow-up, expressing affection for Minnesota in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/minnesota-in-the-spring\/\">Continue reading <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":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[154],"tags":[133,194,132,195],"class_list":["post-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discursive-detours","tag-climate","tag-minnesota","tag-weather","tag-webcam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Dwtw-DG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2464,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions\/2464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}