{"id":12459,"date":"2018-04-18T15:53:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T19:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=12459"},"modified":"2018-04-18T15:54:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T19:54:19","slug":"at-last-lilacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=12459","title":{"rendered":"At last, lilacs"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/L-lilac-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"987\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/L-lilac-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/L-lilac-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/L-lilac-1-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/L-lilac-1-768x758.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/lilac-1.jpg\">Click here for high-resolution version.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have been waiting for years for the lilac bush to bloom for the first time. This year it finally did, though only in a small way. <\/p>\n<p>The apple trees are looking great. There was a chance of frost on April 16, which I was afraid would ruin the apple blooms when they were most vulnerable. But the the frost didn&#8217;t happen. Here&#8217;s hoping for a good apple year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/L-lilac-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"952\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/L-lilac-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/L-lilac-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/L-lilac-2-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/L-lilac-2-768x731.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/lilac-2.jpg\">Click here for high-resolution version.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/L-lilac-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"965\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/L-lilac-3.jpg\" alt=\"\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/L-lilac-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/L-lilac-3-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/L-lilac-3-768x741.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/lilac-3.jpg\">Click here for high-resolution version.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here for high-resolution version. I have been waiting for years for the lilac bush to bloom for the first time. This year it finally did, though only in a small way. The apple trees are looking great. There was a chance of frost on April 16, which I was afraid would ruin the apple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=12459\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;At last, lilacs&#8221;<\/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":[15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-living","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12459"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12469,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459\/revisions\/12469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}