{"id":3086,"date":"2015-05-10T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2015-05-10T21:54:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T01:54:55","slug":"signs-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/signs-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring 2015 has been very slow in coming, but coming she is! Here are the signs I&#8217;ve seen over the last few days. (I will be adding pictures as more spring things appear.)<\/p>\n<p>Update: May 10 &#8211; I&#8217;m adding the last pictures to this series. This past week we seemed to move from spring to summer, though spring is supposed to make a return appearance in a few days. 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