{"id":1321,"date":"2014-03-20T10:06:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T14:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2014-03-20T10:06:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T14:06:12","slug":"healthpersonal-happy-first-day-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1321","title":{"rendered":"(health\/personal) Happy first day of Spring!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate, I got up early and christened my new swimsuit at the Y.\u00a0 It felt SO good to be swimming, in a swimsuit that FIT and didn&#8217;t feel like\u00a0 I was going to have a wardrobe malfunction if I breathed wrong.\u00a0 (I really needed a new swimsuit, let me tell you.)\u00a0 And it felt really, really good.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I like the first day of spring &#8211; for the last few days, I&#8217;ve been able to smell the first scents of dirt and the promise of growing things in the air.\u00a0 I got tender, narrow shoots of asparagus yesterday at a farm stand, and they tasted fresh this morning with my scrambled eggs.\u00a0 When I pulled into my driveway from my Remicade treatment yesterday at 7 pm, it was just turning to full dark from twilight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Spring makes me happy.\u00a0 It reminds me that I&#8217;ve survived another winter, and that better, warmer days are on hand.\u00a0 I&#8217;m already looking forward to camping (yay, Pennsic!!!) and being outside.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to throw an outdoor tea this year.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to go to the ocean.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to spend at least one of my Wednesdays on the beach with a good book.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m going to continue my healthy lifestyle.\u00a0 Not a diet.\u00a0 Not a &#8220;phase.&#8221;\u00a0 A lifestyle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate, I got up early and christened my new swimsuit at the Y.\u00a0 It felt SO good to be swimming, in a swimsuit that FIT and didn&#8217;t feel like\u00a0 I was going to have a wardrobe malfunction if I breathed wrong.\u00a0 (I really needed a new swimsuit, let me tell you.)\u00a0 And it felt &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1321\">>>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,41,12,50],"tags":[81,78,7,60,84],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health","category-personal","category-swimming","tag-food","tag-health","tag-life","tag-personal","tag-swimming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}