{"id":622,"date":"2009-02-12T15:24:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T21:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/?p=622"},"modified":"2018-05-15T11:22:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:22:54","slug":"dreaming-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/2009\/02\/dreaming-of-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kerischneider\/3274413935\/\" title=\"Bike-keh by KeriFlur, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3456\/3274413935_712a5e7efb.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" alt=\"Bike-keh\" \/><\/a>\n\n-->Winters in Minnesota are usually very bright and very, very cold.  We had plenty of that in January but now we seem to have hit a warm spell.  This would be a good thing, except the warmth has come with rain and cloudy, gloomy days that mentally feel worse than the cold, sunny days and make me yearn for springtime.  On days like this I try to surround myself with bring colors or bright locations to fight the depressive dreariness, but today I&#8217;m just longing to ride my bike.<\/p>\n<p>The photo above was taken when we got a brief break in the cloud cover and the sun shone in on my racing steed, which is spending its winter in the warmth of the dining room.  Seeing it in the sun brings back fond memories of the summer rides where I was so hot I thought I might melt down over the handlebars and two water bottles just weren&#8217;t enough to keep me hydrated for an entire outing.  It reminds me of lunches at The Tin Fish and the twists and turns of the creek trail.  Summers here are short but are truly fantastic.  Is it May yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winters in Minnesota are usually very bright and very, very cold. We had plenty of that in January but now we seem to have hit a warm spell. This would be a good thing, except the warmth has come with rain and cloudy, gloomy days that mentally feel worse than the cold, sunny days and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[23,217,461,27,28,218,5],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}