{"id":1248,"date":"2009-04-18T13:28:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T19:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2009-04-20T21:25:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T03:25:05","slug":"the-palette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2009\/04\/18\/the-palette\/","title":{"rendered":"the palette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>about a week ago, we had one of those late-season snows that leaves minnesotans wondering&#8230; is this ever going to end?<\/p>\n<p>we sat down for lunch, and co-worker betsy said, mournfully, when will the grass be green again? (there was an inch of slush on the ground)<\/p>\n<p>we all chuckled, and I said, in roughly the same tone, daddy, tell me what it was like when the birds sang&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>anyway, i really like taking photos&#8230; i think i&#8217;m getting better at it. but it&#8217;s very obvious that to get better, you need to practice. and at some point every spring, the minnesotan in me starts thinking&#8230; what can i take pictures of? everything is <strong>grey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>well, i tried to shake it off and go out to snap a few pics. here are a few of my favorites:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36101699236@N01\/3415599922\" title=\"View 'split' on Flickr.com\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3626\/3415599922_dea6ca8135.jpg\" alt=\"split\" border=\"0\" width=\"\" height=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36101699236@N01\/3415599204\" title=\"View 'hanging' on Flickr.com\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3575\/3415599204_1da61eaaaf.jpg\" alt=\"hanging\" border=\"0\" width=\"\" height=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36101699236@N01\/3415598676\" title=\"View 'sky' on Flickr.com\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3322\/3415598676_66e7a27bc4.jpg\" alt=\"sky\" border=\"0\" width=\"\" height=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36101699236@N01\/3414791463\" title=\"View 'trees' on Flickr.com\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3618\/3414791463_6aa903d955.jpg\" alt=\"trees\" border=\"0\" width=\"\" height=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36101699236@N01\/3415598026\" title=\"View 'stop' on Flickr.com\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3369\/3415598026_cb940d0066.jpg\" alt=\"stop\" border=\"0\" width=\"\" height=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>luckily, all things pass.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36101699236@N01\/3452813451\" title=\"View 'spring' on Flickr.com\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3357\/3452813451_16a9eccaac.jpg\" alt=\"spring\" border=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"445\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>about a week ago, we had one of those late-season snows that leaves minnesotans wondering&#8230; is this ever going to end? we sat down for lunch, and co-worker betsy said, mournfully, when will the grass be green again? (there was an inch of slush on the ground) we all chuckled, and I said, in roughly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts","tag-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-k8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}