{"id":33679,"date":"2015-09-01T12:02:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T10:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/33679\/five-reasons-why-we-love-spring\/"},"modified":"2015-09-01T12:08:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T10:08:38","slug":"five-reasons-why-we-love-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/09\/01\/five-reasons-why-we-love-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Reasons Why We Love Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>1. Warmer and longer days<\/h2>\n<p>No more jerseys and scarves, we get to enjoy the sun and drive with the windows down.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33684\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33684\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/09\/van-705867_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-78285 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/09\/van-705867_1280-270x203.jpg\" alt=\"Photo : Pixabay\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Pixabay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>2. Blooming flowers<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33683\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33683\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/09\/flower-1514435.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-78286 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/09\/flower-1514435-270x203.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: freeimages.com\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: freeimages.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>3. Spending time outdoors<\/h2>\n<p>Hiking, picnics, gardening and swimming. We get to do all these lovely things again!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33682\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33682\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/09\/wanderer-455338_640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-78287 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/09\/wanderer-455338_640-270x203.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Pixabay\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Pixabay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>4. Braais<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33681\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33681\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/09\/bbq-1464525.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-78288 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/09\/bbq-1464525-270x203.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Pixabay\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: freeimages.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>5. A new start<\/h2>\n<p>Even though resolutions are made in January, there\u2019s something about spring that makes you feel like a fresh start is possible.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33680\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33680\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/09\/youth-570881_640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-78291 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/09\/youth-570881_640-270x203.jpg\" alt=\"Photo:Pixabay\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo:Pixabay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honour of the first day of spring, here are some of the best things about the warm season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7663,"featured_media":33686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central ","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}