{"id":425,"date":"2012-02-26T13:40:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T20:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=425"},"modified":"2012-02-26T13:40:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T20:40:38","slug":"biding-our-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"Biding Our Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC02395.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-427\" title=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC02395-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC02395-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC02395-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Patience is a virtue.\u00a0 Whatever.\u00a0 I am ready for this to get to the next step.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like we are in a state of suspension.\u00a0 Oil drifting slowing through ice cold water.\u00a0 Droplets left to idly float down.\u00a0 Snail speed.\u00a0 Abandoned to drift through the fluid.\u00a0 Plodding.<\/p>\n<p>Spring has probably begun on the island.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll find out eventually.\u00a0 Has the winter drowned all prospects of an early clearing?\u00a0 Will there be inches of gooey wet mud through which to slog?\u00a0 Of course there will be; especially after a few chosen trees hit the earth.<\/p>\n<p>I need spring.\u00a0 I need motion and sprouting and activity.\u00a0 February has an extra day this year&#8230;of course it does!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patience is a virtue.\u00a0 Whatever.\u00a0 I am ready for this to get to the next step. I feel like we are in a state of suspension.\u00a0 Oil drifting slowing through ice cold water.\u00a0 Droplets left to idly float down.\u00a0 Snail &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=425\">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":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}