{"id":252750,"date":"2022-04-27T14:55:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T14:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=251899"},"modified":"2022-04-27T14:55:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T14:55:31","slug":"fools-spring-or-the-spring-of-deception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/04\/27\/fools-spring-or-the-spring-of-deception\/","title":{"rendered":"Fool&#8217;s spring, or the spring of deception"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/hwjM8wLG5f4IRGkC5Ex04dabo1qEJCb93AAyoVI3iV6uz8q4uiVqkimdAo5V2HPXJ0Jfg8KJTFYzIODChKQqYd70TUB09lJXsezCSH3YVMi26cImMeAF6SKVQzHlWYT7zYn9TkEM8RyxpFrd5udx5sTNnL6m4iF9zT6CvDNV_pMzQEjnum6GCwBC9njHeGxF6nBoaQ8GD7XBCzFtJdOJ5fNKd3zWwh5pFUutrwh6l5cihAIYEtjWdIx4sXUF7TuVo7aJdkCkiZb65-wflrfteOBNWJFGfLuM4WN9uCO6FQEsQWzrH9ke2kwVViEe876QyFvO5LoeCeBzxD7-Cas-19u-4VpI=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/w_2822,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff252647a-6701-468c-bfe6-bca4018266c0_1411x1321.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>None of it looked good. That\u2019s the secret about that first big horny spring day: It isn\u2019t beautiful. Spring\u2019s guts were out, parts spread haphazard around the driveway. Bare branches and cold ground left over from winter showed uglier with flowers trying to make inroads against them, and the paltry patches of green on the lawns only emphasized the dull muddy browns. The myths and the stories tell us that spring turns beautiful all at once, but that\u2019s not really how it works. First, we have to lie to ourselves about it. To believe in resurrection, we have to talk ourselves into it.<\/p><cite>Helena Fitzgerald, <a href=\"https:\/\/griefbacon.substack.com\/p\/fools-spring\">Griefbacon<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>None of it looked good. That\u2019s the secret about that first big horny spring day: It isn\u2019t beautiful. Spring\u2019s guts were out, parts spread haphazard around the driveway. Bare branches and cold ground left over from winter showed uglier with flowers trying to make inroads against them, and the paltry patches of green on the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/04\/27\/fools-spring-or-the-spring-of-deception\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fool&#8217;s spring, or the spring of deception&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}