{"id":68,"date":"2011-03-21T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2011\/03\/minnesota-spring\/"},"modified":"2011-03-21T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T10:59:00","slug":"minnesota-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2011\/03\/minnesota-spring.html","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Spring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-7NK1t4asWfo\/TYd0iAWcK9I\/AAAAAAAABGE\/kyXRUQVCBno\/s1600\/101_1973.JPG\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"316\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-7NK1t4asWfo\/TYd0iAWcK9I\/AAAAAAAABGE\/kyXRUQVCBno\/s400\/101_1973.JPG\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>Here\u2019s a shot from yesterday of some geese that flew up from the Gulf of Mexico (1,300 miles), only to find ice on the lakes. Dang! Welcome to Minnesota. Otter Lake might magically transform to water in about two weeks.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>Seeing the transformation of ice to water, who could doubt that our hearts and minds too might reach a turning point. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/4330911338438640912-7151715774116131548?l=wildfoxzen.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a shot from yesterday of some geese that flew up from the Gulf of Mexico (1,300 miles), only to find ice on the lakes. Dang! Welcome to Minnesota. 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