{"id":213,"date":"2008-03-24T22:27:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T03:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2008-03-24T22:27:49","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T03:27:49","slug":"unsprung-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/24\/unsprung-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsprung spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The calendar says that spring is here. Maybe we are on a time delay in Troisdorf.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My new neighbors <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:12px;padding-top:7px;float:right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/BILDER\/troisdorf01.jpg\" title=\"snow in Troisdorf\" alt=\"snow in Troisdorf\" height=\"206\" width=\"275\" \/> sent me a photo of their back yard today. It doesn&#8217;t look a whole lot like spring in my neighborhood. In fact, it snowed about 2-3 inches today &ndash; a holiday. (The Monday after Easter Sunday is a holiday in Germany.) A late snow is really not unusual. Easter was early this year, and Easter often has people thinking of spring and warmer weather. It&#8217;s on the way, it has just been delayed a bit. The day off provided an opportunity for children to throw a few snowballs and attempt to build a snowman. They have to make use of the opportunity, because the snow won&#8217;t last more than a day. Since <a class=\"blog\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/blog\/?p=189\">my report on moving to my new apartment<\/a>, my old landlord has refunded our security deposit (minus last year&#8217;s extra costs for heating). That means that after 13 1\/2 years in our old apartment, we are now officially finished there and I can start shredding old utility statements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The calendar says that spring is here. Maybe we are on a time delay in Troisdorf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}