{"id":1080,"date":"2010-09-01T13:31:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T03:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.181.224.157.134\/~sommerme\/blog\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2015-03-27T10:57:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T00:57:28","slug":"visual-inspiration-365-169-if-we-had-no-winter-the-spring-would-not-be-so-pleasant-anne-bradstreet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/visual-inspiration-365-169-if-we-had-no-winter-the-spring-would-not-be-so-pleasant-anne-bradstreet\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Inspiration 365 \/\/ 169"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/169-Visual-Inspiration-365-If-we-had-no-winter-the-spring-would-not-be-so-pleasant-Anne-Bradstreet_900_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-full wp-image-3211 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/169-Visual-Inspiration-365-If-we-had-no-winter-the-spring-would-not-be-so-pleasant-Anne-Bradstreet_900_web.jpg\" alt=\"Visual Inspiration 365 - If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant - Anne Bradstreet\" width=\"900\" height=\"897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/169-Visual-Inspiration-365-If-we-had-no-winter-the-spring-would-not-be-so-pleasant-Anne-Bradstreet_900_web.jpg 900w, https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/169-Visual-Inspiration-365-If-we-had-no-winter-the-spring-would-not-be-so-pleasant-Anne-Bradstreet_900_web-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/169-Visual-Inspiration-365-If-we-had-no-winter-the-spring-would-not-be-so-pleasant-Anne-Bradstreet_900_web-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Quote \/\/\u00a0 If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome &#8211; Anne Bradstreet<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211; <\/span> Dear Spring,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Why hello you lovely thing you!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I have been patiently waiting for you for a while now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After requesting that Winter kindly pack it&#8217;s bags and move out (I suggested that perhaps it would like to go stay with some friends of mine in USA),\u00a0 I&#8217;ve arranged a new set of housekeys for you, which you&#8217;ll find on the bench downstairs,\u00a0 so you can come and go as you please.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You&#8217;ll be happy to know that I&#8217;ve also had a chance to freshen up the guest room since Winter moved out (had to clean out a small mountain of tissues, scarves &amp; cold mornings\u2026..glad to see them go!!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There are also fresh towels in the bathroom and you are absolutely more than welcome to have your friends &#8220;fresh flowers&#8221;, &#8220;longer days&#8221; &#8220;sunny blue skies with fluffy white clouds&#8221; &amp; &#8220;afternoon picnics&#8221; \u00a0to stay over any time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Once again, I&#8217;m ever so glad you have finally decided to come visit and I&#8217;m looking forward to the grand times we shall have.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With love,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sommer<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quote \/\/\u00a0 If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome &#8211; Anne Bradstreet&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/visual-inspiration-365-169-if-we-had-no-winter-the-spring-would-not-be-so-pleasant-anne-bradstreet\/\" class=\"post-read-more\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[154,628,629,1767,1001,39,1219,1768],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/169-Visual-Inspiration-365-If-we-had-no-winter-the-spring-would-not-be-so-pleasant-Anne-Bradstreet_900_web.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3212,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions\/3212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}