{"id":933,"date":"2008-03-23T01:30:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T05:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2008\/03\/23\/its-a-cold-spring-so-far\/"},"modified":"2010-10-09T20:41:20","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T00:41:20","slug":"its-a-cold-spring-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2008\/03\/23\/its-a-cold-spring-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a cold spring so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2006\/06\/23\/green-thumb-sunday\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/104\/306398715_49775ad925_o.gif\" alt=\"Join Green Thumb Sunday\" \/><\/a><\/center><center><a href=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2006\/06\/23\/green-thumb-sunday\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Join<\/a><\/center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dragonden\/157449931\/\" title=\"Aquilegia by triciawd, on Flickr\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"ext-link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dragonden\/157449931\/\" title=\"Aquilegia by triciawd, on Flickr\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"ext-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/53\/157449931_af70d656a0.jpg\" alt=\"Aquilegia\" height=\"420\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well so much for the first week of Spring, huh?  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