{"id":85,"date":"2008-04-02T14:06:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T20:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2008-11-17T16:11:45","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T22:11:45","slug":"spring-is-officially-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/spring-is-officially-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring is officially here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoy spring. With the arrival of spring comes warmer weather, a cheerful feeling of rebirth in everything around, and, of course, baseball.<\/p>\n<p>As I write this my Kansas City Royals sit alone on top of the American League standings. If Cleveland, Tampa Bay, and the Yankees lose this evening then they may have a whole day to enjoy it. This doesn&#8217;t happen often, so we Royals fans can at least revel in the fact that we&#8217;ve beaten a team twice (the Tigers) that many have predicted to win the World Series this year, what with the addition of some great firepower to their lineup. I&#8217;m not sure if two early losses to the Royals are enough for Tigers fans to get nervous, but it&#8217;s moments like this that I&#8217;ve had to live for as a Royals fan. (Some readers will note that I&#8217;m also a Colorado Rockies fan, but my loyalty to the Royals remains and precedes the Rockies&#8217; existence.)<\/p>\n<p>So I can say that I&#8217;m officially enjoying spring, even if it means the return of lawn mowing and eagerness as I look out the classroom window* as I wait for the end of the semester to go outside and play.<\/p>\n<p>(* note: there are not actually any windows in my classrooms, and even if there were, they would just show me some ugly buildings)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoy spring. With the arrival of spring comes warmer weather, a cheerful feeling of rebirth in everything around, and, of course, baseball. As I write this my Kansas City Royals sit alone on top of the American League standings. If Cleveland, Tampa Bay, and the Yankees lose this evening then they may have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,14,21],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-baseball","tag-royals","tag-spring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}