{"id":379,"date":"2009-04-13T11:43:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T10:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2009-04-13T11:43:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T10:43:22","slug":"this-fills-me-with-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"this fills me with hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stevehanlon\/3437128235\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3581\/3437128235_284774892e_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stevehanlon\/3437128235\/\">damson blossom buds in spring<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/stevehanlon\/\">stephen_hanlon<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>I took this picture about a week ago, because seeing these buds suddenly made me feel very optimistic and happy about the next few months.<br \/>\nLast year, the damsons basically failed &#8211; we had about 12 plums off both trees, which was apparently a national problem. This year, the trees are covered in blossom, so I&#8217;m keeping my fingers crossed that this turns into a bumper year and we can stock up on jam for a few months ahead!<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>damson blossom buds in spring Originally uploaded by stephen_hanlon I took this picture about a week ago, because seeing these buds suddenly made me feel very optimistic and happy about the next few months. Last year, the damsons basically failed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=379\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}