{"id":8618,"date":"2023-03-15T02:28:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T02:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8618"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:11","slug":"timing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8618","title":{"rendered":"TIMING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This morning I was surprised to see a thin covering of snow on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Surprised. Not happy.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was not magical. It was annoying.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It crossed my mind that a few months ago &#8211; anytime around December 25th, for example &#8211; this same snow would have been welcomed by all. We would have only been disappointed by how <i>little <\/i>there was.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But not on March 14th.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes the only thing keeping us from judging a curse as a blessing is time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was surprised to see a thin covering of snow on the ground. Surprised. Not happy. It was not magical. It was annoying.\u00a0 It crossed my mind that a few months ago &#8211; anytime around December 25th, for example &#8211; this same snow would have been welcomed by all. We would have only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8619,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618\/revisions\/8619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}