{"id":178,"date":"2009-03-09T12:32:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T17:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zingman.com\/blog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2026-03-14T03:26:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:26:40","slug":"the-lamb-lies-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/the-lamb-lies-down\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lamb Lies Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can forget what I said about forgetting what I said about spring coming. This weekend it was unseasonably warm and mild. Saturday I went ice skating with the girls and their scout troop, out on the rink in shirtsleeves. Sunday was the official start of yard work season. I took down the last of the Christmas lights, uncovered the fig tree, and raked the yard clear of old leaves, branches and debris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can forget what I said about forgetting what I said about spring coming. This weekend it was unseasonably warm and mild. Saturday I went ice skating with the girls and their scout troop, out on the rink in shirtsleeves. Sunday was the official start of yard work season. I took down the last of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/the-lamb-lies-down\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Lamb Lies Down&#8221;<\/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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6677,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/6677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}