{"id":3290,"date":"2012-05-02T12:29:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T17:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3290"},"modified":"2012-05-02T12:29:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T17:29:21","slug":"date-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3290","title":{"rendered":"THE DATE SAYS SPRING"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3290 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/rabbits659.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/rabbits659-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3291\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/rabbits659-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/rabbits659-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3291'>\n\t\t\t\tBUNNIES\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/rockville-4-28-12-98815.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/rockville-4-28-12-98815-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3292\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/rockville-4-28-12-98815-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/rockville-4-28-12-98815-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" 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src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/snow-lion-3-16-12-96754-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3297\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/snow-lion-3-16-12-96754-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/snow-lion-3-16-12-96754-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3297'>\n\t\t\t\tSNOW LION JLO\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/whale-ho.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/whale-ho-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3298\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/whale-ho-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/whale-ho-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3298'>\n\t\t\t\tWHALE HO\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>We continued our search for sites of former mills in Rhode Island last weekend. Spring was evident, it has come early for us this year, but not without a price. Although it does not show in the photographs of the dams; the water table is very low as a result of a relatively dry spring and little snow this winter.<\/p>\n<p>Alterations to Snow Lion are nearing completion, we all have high hopes of a speed advantage beyond the rating increase. The Bermuda Race start is a little over six weeks away. The longest days of the year. By the time I return from Bermuda the days will be already getting shorter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We continued our search for sites of former mills in Rhode Island last weekend. Spring was evident, it has come early for us this year, but not without a price. Although it does not show in the photographs of the dams; the water table is very low as a result of a relatively dry spring &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3290\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THE DATE SAYS SPRING<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2387,2384,1299],"class_list":["post-3290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snow-lion","tag-bermuda-race","tag-snow-lion","tag-water-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}