{"id":1427,"date":"2008-04-05T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/05\/spring-has-sprung-opening-day-the-sequel\/"},"modified":"2008-04-05T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T18:28:00","slug":"spring-has-sprung-opening-day-the-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/spring-has-sprung-opening-day-the-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring has Sprung: Opening Day-the Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"

I teach ice skating on Saturday mornings at an unreasonable hour (6am). When I left for the rink, I was in snow pants, a ski jacket and I still saw one lingering, black snow pile behind our garage. Come 12pm- right before the Cubs game- it seems as though Spring decided to show up. There is sun and 65 degree weather. The snow pile has vanished into muck. <\/p>\n

Ever the skeptic, I drove home with the snow pants and superstitiously decided to leave my snow boots in front of our door. The last time I put them away, we had an additional 6 inches of snow. I am not testing the fates, but I am writing this blog from the roof, listening to the Cubs game-with the stereo cheers booming from the park. <\/p>\n

This day is like an alternate Opening Day. There is Opening Day in the “winter” and then, there is Opening Day in the spring. I am scared to admit it, but I think the new season has arrived- Spring and the Cubs. <\/p>\n

Now, trust me. I am not in the tropics here. It is 65 degrees (in the sun), but you have to minus 10 degrees in the shade and account for wind conditions. So, it is a balmy 50 degrees or something. My toes are cold and I left all the other layers on except for the snow pants. But, this is a positive sign of the Season. Even Ronnie Santo is singing the Stretch today. <\/p>\n

If I could wave at you, I would be shivering from behind that green score board- which is obstructing my view.
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But, you can’t have everything. For now, I will settle for a bit of sun, wafts from the roof top grills, and a “W” flag waving in painful wind conditions that are burning my face. Ahh…Spring has definitely sprung in Wrigleyville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I teach ice skating on Saturday mornings at an unreasonable hour (6am). When I left for the rink, I was in snow pants, a ski jacket and I still saw one lingering, black snow pile behind our garage. Come 12pm- right before the Cubs game- it seems as though Spring decided to show up. There is sun and 65 degree weather. The snow pile has vanished into muck.
\nEver the skeptic, I drove home with the snow pants and superstitiously decided to leave my snow …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}